Bible verses about "martyrs" | MSTC

¹⁶ Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

¹³ I can do all things through the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

⁹ and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

²⁸ And fear ye not them which kill the body, and be not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body into hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And none of them doth light on the ground, without your father. ³⁰ And now are all the hairs of your heads numbered. ³¹ Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. ³² Whosoever therefore shall knowledge me before men, him will I knowledge also before my father which is in heaven. ³³ But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven.

³¹ What shall we then say unto these things? if God be on our side: who can be against us? ³² Which spared not his own son, but gave him for us all: How shall he not with him give us all things also? ³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's chosen? It is God that justifieth: ³⁴ who then shall condemn? It is Christ which is dead; Yea rather which is risen again, which is also on the righthand of God and maketh intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?

⁹ And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar, the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had, ¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice saying, "How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

¹² Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecutions.

¹⁴ If ye be railed upon for the name of Christ; happy are ye. For the spirit of glory and the spirit of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of: but on your part he is glorified. ¹⁵ See that none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. ¹⁶ If any man suffer as a Christian man, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God on his behalf.