Bible Verses About Martyrdom: General references

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

`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.

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

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 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;

`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;

(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held,

and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed--even as they.

`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

and their dead bodies are upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

and they shall behold--they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations--their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these--the two prophets--did torment those dwelling upon the land.'

And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, `Come up hither;' and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;