10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison;

But Herod when he heard it said, John whom I beheaded, he it is; he is risen from among the dead.

And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.

And I saw thrones; and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them; and the souls of those beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God; and those who had not done homage to the beast nor to his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and hand; and they lived and reigned with the Christ a thousand years:

and that whosoever doth not fall down and worship, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;