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Hebrews 10:33
partly by being made a public spectacle through insults and distress, and partly by becoming companions with those who were so treated.
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Romans 8:36
Just as it is written:“ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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2 Corinthians 4 8-2 Corinthians 4 12
we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.So death works in us, but life in you.
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2 Corinthians 1 8-2 Corinthians 1 10
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
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Revelation 6:9-11
When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;and they cried out with a loud voice, saying,“ How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who live on the earth?”And a white robe was given to each of them; and they were told that they were to rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters who were to be killed even as they had been, was completed also.
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1 Thessalonians 3 3
so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.
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Revelation 7:11-14
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,saying,“ Amen, blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen.”Then one of the elders responded, saying to me,“ These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?”I said to him,“ My lord, you know.” And he said to me,“ These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown and yet well known, as dying and yet behold, we are alive; as punished and yet not put to death,
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Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
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1 Thessalonians 5 9-1 Thessalonians 5 10
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
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Psalms 44:22
But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
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Philippians 1:29-30
For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf,experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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Acts 19:31
Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.
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Acts 19:29
The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s Macedonian traveling companions.
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1 Corinthians 15 30-1 Corinthians 15 32
Why are we also in danger every hour?I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good is it to me? If the dead are not raised, let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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Hebrews 11:36
and others experienced mocking and flogging, and further, chains and imprisonment.
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Revelation 17:6-7
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.And the angel said to me,“ Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.