Bible Verses About Martyrdom

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, `Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod,

and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.

and it cometh to pass, in Jezebel's cutting off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah taketh a hundred prophets, and hideth them, fifty men in a cave, and hath sustained them with bread and water--

And he saith, `I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant--Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life--to take it.'

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.'

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

`He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

`Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name--

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world--to life age-during shall keep it;

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;