Bible verses about "martyrs" | Riverside

¹⁶ Thomas, who is called Didymus (the Twin), said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too to die with him."

⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

²⁸ Do not fear before those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows. ³² Every one who shall confess me before men I too will confess before my Father in heaven. ³³ Every one who shall disown me before men I too will disown before my Father in heaven.

³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous. ³⁴ Who is there to condemn? Christ Jesus died, or rather was raised, and he is on the right hand of God interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the sake of God's message and because of the testimony which they had borne. ¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Ruler holy and true, wilt thou delay to judge and take vengeance for our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?"

¹² And all who are determined to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.