Martyrdom: General Scriptures Concerning

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld. …

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them. …

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.