Acts 7:59
7:59 They
continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Acts 12:2
12:2 He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.
Acts 26:10-11
26:10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received
from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote
against them when they were sentenced to death.
26:11 I punished
them often in all the synagogues
and tried to force
them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged
at them, I went to persecute
them even in foreign cities.
Revelation 2:13
2:13 ‘I know
where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet
you continue to cling
to my name and you have not denied your
faith in me,
even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness,
who was killed in your city
where Satan lives.
Revelation 6:9
6:9 Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.
Revelation 12:11
12:11 But they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.