Bible verses about "martyrs" | Mace

¹⁶ then said Thomas, that is, Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, let us also go, that we may die with him.

¹³ to these things I am equal, thro' Christ who strengthens me.

⁹ but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me. ¹⁰ I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.

²⁸ fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. ²⁹ are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them shall lose its life independently of your father, ³⁰ by whom the very hairs of your head are all numbred: ³¹ lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals. ³² Whosoever therefore shall own me before men, him will I own likewise before my father who is in heaven. ³³ but whosoever shall renounce me before men, him will I also renounce before my father who is in heaven.

³¹ What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us? ³² he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things? ³³ who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them? ³⁴ who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us? ³⁵ what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

⁹ When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintain'd. ¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, saying, "how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou defer doing justice, and avenging our blood on those that dwell on the earth?"

¹² and those who will live like Christians, shall generally suffer persecution.

¹⁴ if you suffer indignities in the cause of Christ, you are happy: for the glorious spirit of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices. ¹⁶ but whoever suffers as a christian, let him not be asham'd, but rather give thanks to God upon that account.