20 Bible Verses about Martyrdom Of The Saints

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child: and children shall rise up in revolt against parents, and kill them.

Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name.

They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God.

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me. For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Ye have not yet resisted until blood, fighting against sin.

And to each were given white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till also their fellowservants be filled up, about to be killed, as also they.

And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.

And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the holy, and of all those slain upon the earth.

That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and the holy sent, and the prophets; for God judged your judgment of her. And one strong angel lifted up a stone as a great millstone, and cast into the sea, saying, Thus with excitement shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and be found no more. And the voice of harp players, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters, should be heard in thee no more; and every artist of every art be found no more in thee; and the voice of the millstone should be heard no more in thee;read more.
And the light of the lamp no more should shine in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, should no more be heard in thee: for thy wholesale merchants were leaders of the earth: for with thy charms were all nations led astray. And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the holy, and of all those slain upon the earth.

And they will conspire against him, and stone him with stone by the commands of the king in the enclosure of the house of Jehovah.

And quickly the king, having sent a scout, commanded his head to be brought:

From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of the slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had: