Psalm 44:22
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22 Yet (A)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Romans 8:36
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36 As it is written,
(A)“For your sake (B)we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Isaiah 53:7
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7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
(A)yet he opened not his mouth;
(B)like a (C)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
Psalm 44:11
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John 16:2-3
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2 (A)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, (B)the hour is coming when (C)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things (D)because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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John 15:21
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21 But (A)all these things they will do to you (B)on account of my name, (C)because they do not know him who sent me.
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1 Corinthians 15:30-31
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30 Why are we (A)in danger every hour? 31 I protest, brothers, by (B)my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, (C)I die every day!
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1 Corinthians 4:9
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, (A)like men sentenced to death, because we (B)have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
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Matthew 5:10-12
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10 (A)“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for (B)theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 (C)“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely (D)on my account. 12 (E)Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for (F)so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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1 Kings 19:10
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10 He said, “I have been very (A)jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, (B)thrown down your altars, and (C)killed your prophets with the sword, (D)and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
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1 Samuel 22:17-19
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17 And the king said to (A)the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord. 18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, (B)and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; (C)both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
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Revelation 17:6
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6 And I saw the woman, drunk (A)with the blood of the saints, the blood of (B)the martyrs of Jesus.[a]
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
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- Revelation 17:6 Greek the witnesses to Jesus
Revelation 11:3-9
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3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for (A)1,260 days, (B)clothed in sackcloth.”
4 These are (C)the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, (D)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, (E)this is how he is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the power (F)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (G)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, (H)the beast that rises from (I)the bottomless pit[a] (J)will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[b] is called (K)Sodom and (L)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and (M)refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
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- Revelation 11:7 Or the abyss
- Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually
Psalm 79:2-3
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2 They have given (A)the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your (B)faithful to (C)the beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was (D)no one to bury them.
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