Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep b
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death.
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a
And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant,
Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David.
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at t