MARTYRDOM

Passages on this topic · 62

• Genesis 4:3

  As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

• Genesis 4:4

  Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

• Genesis 4:5

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

• Genesis 4:6

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

• Genesis 4:8

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• 1 Kings 18:4

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 2 Chronicles 24:21

  They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:22

  Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

• Psalms 44:22

  Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

• Matthew 10:21

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

• Matthew 10:22

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Matthew 10:39

  He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

• Matthew 16:25

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

• Matthew 22:6

  and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

• Matthew 23:34

  Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

• Matthew 23:35

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Matthew 24:9

  Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

• Mark 6:18

  For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

• Mark 6:19

  Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,

• Mark 6:20

  for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

• Mark 6:21

  Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

• Mark 6:22

  When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”

• Mark 6:23

  He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

• Mark 6:24

  She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

• Mark 6:25

  She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

• Mark 6:26

  The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

• Mark 6:27

  Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

• Mark 6:28

  and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

• Mark 13:12

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

• Luke 9:24

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

• Luke 11:50

  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

• Luke 21:16

  You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

• Luke 21:17

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

• John 12:25

  He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

• Acts 7:58

  They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

• Acts 7:59

  They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

• Acts 7:60

  He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

• Acts 12:2

  He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

• Romans 8:36

  Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

• Romans 11:3

  “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

  who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;

• Hebrews 11:32

  What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;

• Hebrews 11:33

  who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

• Hebrews 11:34

  quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

• Hebrews 11:35

  Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

• Hebrews 11:36

  Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

• Hebrews 11:37

  They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

• Revelation 6:9

  When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

• Revelation 6:10

  They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

• Revelation 6:11

  A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

• Revelation 11:7

  When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

• Revelation 11:8

  Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

• Revelation 11:9

  From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

• Revelation 11:10

  Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

• Revelation 11:11

  After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

• Revelation 11:12

  I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

• Revelation 12:11

  They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

• Revelation 16:6

  For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

• Revelation 17:6

  I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.