53 Bible Verses about Martyrdom
Want to know what the Bible says about Martyrdom? Here are 53 Bible verses about Martyrdom from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Matthew 16:25 NIV
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
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Matthew 23:34-35 NIV
34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Mark 13:12 NIV
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
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Luke 9:24 NIV
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
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Luke 11:50 NIV
Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
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Luke 21:16-17 NIV
16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17 Everyone will hate you because of me.
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John 12:25 NIV
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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Romans 8:36 NIV
As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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1 Corinthians 13:3 NIV
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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Revelation 6:9-11 NIV
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.
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