Bible verses about "martyrs" | Murdock

¹⁶ Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples: Let us also go and die with him.

¹³ I find strength for every thing, in the Messiah who strengtheneth me.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of the Messiah may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I have pleasure in infirmities, in reproach, in afflictions, in persecutions, in distresses, which are for the Messiah's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

²⁸ And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but be afraid rather of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet one of them doth not fall to the ground without your Father. ³⁰ As for you, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Therefore be not afraid: ye are more important than many sparrows. ³² Wherefore, whoever shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. ³³ But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

³¹ What then shall we say of these things? If God is for us; who is against us? ³² And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him? ³³ Who will set himself against the chosen of God? It is God who justifieth. ³⁴ Who is it that condemneth? Messiah died, and arose, and is on the right hand of God, and maketh intercession for us. ³⁵ What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword?

⁹ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them who were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony to the Lamb which was with them. ¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord, thou holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

¹² And likewise all, who choose to live in the fear of God, in Jesus the Messiah, will be persecuted.

¹⁴ And if ye are reproached on account of the name of the Messiah, happy are ye: for the glorious Spirit of God resteth upon you. ¹⁵ Only let none of you suffer, as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer. ¹⁶ But if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on account of this name.