Bible Verses About Martyrdom: General references

For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.

"A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm.

Whoever finds his own life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for my sake will find it.

whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake will find it.

Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

At that time you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and put to death, and all peoples will hate you because of me.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death;

For whoever tries to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life on my account will save it.

so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets’ blood that has been shed since the world was established,

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends; some of you they will have put to death;

and everyone will hate you because of me.

He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!

As the Tanakh puts it, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.”

I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for proclaiming the Word of God, that is, for bearing witness.

They cried out in a loud voice, “Sovereign Ruler, HaKadosh, the True One, how long will it be before you judge the people living on earth and avenge our blood?”

Each of them was given a white robe; and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow-servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed, just as they had been.

When they finish their witnessing, the beast coming up out of the Abyss will fight against them, overcome them and kill them;

and their dead bodies will lie in the main street of the great city whose name, to reflect its spiritual condition, is “S’dom” and “Egypt” — the city where their Lord was executed on a stake.

Some from the nations, tribes, languages and peoples see their bodies for three-and-a-half days and do not permit the corpses to be placed in a tomb.

The people living in the Land rejoice over them, they celebrate and send each other gifts, because these two prophets tormented them so.

But after the three-and-a-half days a breath of life from God entered them, they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

Then the two heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.