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2Ti 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2Th 1:4  So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

^{Rev 20:4}And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

“The church in Smyrna (2:8-11) was a martyr church, It represents the suffering people of God in every age, It is not always outward fire. There is a keener pain in the white heat of inward trial, and there are sorrows still for human hearts to bear, as piercing as in the martyr days. What is the Spirit’s message to the suffering church? “Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life” (2:10). Do not get out of your trouble as easily and as quickly as you can by any possible means, but rather be faithful in your trouble, be faithful even if it kills you. Be faithful not until death, but unto death, faithful even at the cost of death itself. The great temptation to the tried ones is to regard deliverance from trouble as the principal thing.

How noble the example of the men of Babylon in contrast with this! “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace,” they said, “the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up” (Daniel 3:17-18).

That is the true attitude of faithfulness, to stand like Christ in the wilderness, refusing the devil’s help, until God Himself shall set us free, or accept the sacrifice at its fullest cost. This is the greatest need of today, the backbone and the royal blood of self-sacrificing loyalty to principle and to God. When the Holy Spirit can find such men and women, He can accomplish anything by them.” – A.W. Tozer

“A ‘Martyr’ has been defined as ‘a Christian who chooses to suffer death rather than deny Christ, or His work… One who sacrifices something very important to further the Kingdom of God… and endures great suffering for Christian witness.’ Voice of the Martyrs

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” –  Tertullian

• The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas
• Biography of Elisabeth (Betty) Alden Scott Stam 1906 ~ 1934
• Graham Staines and His Two Young Sons Burnt Alive. Wife Forgives Unconditionally!
• Hana Hagos Asgedom
• Azieb Simon
• Seble Hagos Mebrahtu
• Senait Oqbazgi Habta
• Muslim Mob Kills Wife, Children of Christian in Pakistan
• Christian Woman Dies in Eritrean Detention Center
• Potamiaena 205 A.D.
• The Martyrdom of St. Domnina and Her Two Daughters
• Muslim Attackers Kill Fifteen Christians in Nigeria
• Martyrs of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion
• Shakeela Bibi’s Story
• Eleanor Chestnut 1868 ~ 1905
• ELIZABETH AND HADEWIJK; OF WHOM THE FORMER WAS DROWNED AT LEEUWARDEN, AND THE LATTER ESCAPED DEATH, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1549
• MARIA OF MONJOU, A. D. 1552
• TWO YOUNG GIRLS, ABOUT A. D 1550
• JOHN KNEL OR BUCHNER, AND ANNA CANTIANA, A. D. 15.50
• SENTENCE OF DEATH OF CECILIA JERONYMUS
• JOHN CLAESS TESTAMENTS WRITTEN TO WIFE AND OTHERS, IN THE YEAR 1544A
• MARIA VAN BECKUM, AND URSULA, HER BROTHER’S WIFE, A. D. 1544
• BALTHASAR HUBMOR, AND HIS WIFE
• ANNA OF ROTTERDAM, PUT TO DEATH IN THAT PLACE, A. D. 1539
• CHRISTINA HARING, A. D. 1533
• HUGO JACOB KR2EN, AND HIS WIFE MARY, WITH TWO OTHERS, A. D. 1532
• NINE BRETHREN, SEVERAL SISTERS, AND ANOTHER SISTER, A. D. 1529
• WEYNKEN, A WIDOW, DAUGHTER OF CLAES, OF MONICKENDAM, BURNT TO DEATH IN THE HAGUE, THE 20TH NOVEMBER, A. D. 1527
• HANS LANGMANTEL WITH HIS MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT, A. D. 1529
• NINE BRETHREN AND THREE SISTERS, A. D. 1528
• THREE BRETHREN AND TWO SISTERS, A. D. 1528
• HANS FEIERER, WITH FIVE BRETHREN AND THREE SISTERS, A. D. 1528
• FOUR PERSONS, NAMELY, HUYBERT OP DER STRA TEN, TIJNKEN HIS WIFE, PIETER TEN HOVE, AND LIJSKEN TE LINSCHOTEN, NEAR WIT GENSTEYN LED AROUND THE GALLOWS, SCOURGED, AND BANISHED FROM THE COUNTRY, A. D. 1601
• CATHARINE OF THOU, IN LORRAINE, BURNT FOR THE FAITH, AT MONTPELLIER, IN FRANCE, A. D. 1417
• FIVE MEN AND THREE WOMEN BURNT AT TROYES, IN CHAMPAGNE, A. D. 1200; AND SOME EXPELLED FROM METZ
• ARNOLD, MARSILIUS, AND THEODORIC, WITH FIVE OTHER MEN, AND TWO WOMEN, BURNED ALIVE AT COLOGNE AND BONN, A. D. 1163
• GERARD, WITH ABOUT THIRTY OTHERS, MEN AS WELL AS WOMEN, FOR MAINTAINING THE APOS TOLICAL DOCTRINE, AT OXFORD, IN ENGLAND, ARE BRANDED IN THE FOREHEAD, SCOURGED OUT OF THE CITY, AND MISERABLY PERISH WITH COLD, A. D. .1161
• FURTHER OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING SAID FOURTEEN MARTYRS, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNTS OF VARIOUS PAPISTIC AND OTHER WRITERS, NOTED IN A. MELLINUS’ SECOND BOOK OF THE PERSECUTIONS, FOL. 437, COL. 3, 4
• SOME PIOUS CHRISTIANS, CALLED MANICHEANS AND HERETICS BY THE PAPISTS, HANGED FOR THE CONFESSION OF THE EVANGELICAL TRUTH, AT GOSLAR, A. D. 1052
• EUGENIA, AN UPRIGHT CHRISTIAN WOMAN, BEHEADED FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, NEAR THE CITY OF CORDOVA, A. D. 923
• AUREA, A GOD-FEARING MAIDEN, AFTER MANY SEVERE TRIALS, EXECUTED WITH THE SWORD, FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT CORDOVA, A. D. 856
• NUNILO AND ALOIDA, SISTERS AND CHRISTIAN MAIDENS PUT TO DEATH WITH THE SWORD IN THE CITY OF OSCA, FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, ABOUT A. D. 851
• Betty Scott Stam
• ANNA OF FREIBURG, A. D. 1529
• TWO FEMALE DISCIPLES OF ORIGEN, NAMELY, RHAIS AND MARCELLA, BURNED ALIVE AT ALEXANDRIA, FOR THE FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, ABOUT THE YEAR 204
• PERPETUA AND FELICITAS, OF TUBURBI IN MAURITANIA, AND OTHERS, VIOLENTLY PUT TO DEATH, FOR THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, ABOUT THE YEAR 201 ,
• Dionysia, martyr in Africa
• Dionysia, martyr at Alexandria
• Dionysia, virgin martyr at Lampsacus
• Caecilia, st., Roman lady
• Seven Martyrs of Ancyra
• GOLAUDUCH, A CHRISTIAN WOMAN OF PERSIA, MUCH TORTURED, AND PUT TO DEATH FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, ABOUT A. D. 598
• ABOUT FORTY PIOUS CHRISTIANS SEIZED BY THE LONGOBARDS IN ITALY, AND MOST OF THEM PUT TO DEATH WITH THE SWORD, FOR REFUSING TO COMMIT IDOLATRY, A. D. 566
• IRENE AND HER TWO SISTERS, BURNED ALIVE FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, A. D. 309
• BIBLIS, AQUILINA, AND FORTUNATA, THREE GOD FEARING CHRISTIAN WOMEN, PUT TO DEATH FOR THE DIVINE TRUTH, IN PALESTINE, A. D. 308
• ENNATHAS, A CHRISTIAN MAIDEN FROM THE CITY OF SCYTHOPOLIS, BURNED ALIVE IN PALESTINE, FOR THE, CONFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, A. D. 307
• THEODOSIA, A GOD-FEARING MAIDEN OF THE CITY OF TYRE, WHO CAME TO COMFORT THE BOUND MARTYRS, DROWNED IN THE SEA AT CAESAREA, A. D. 306)
• JULITTA OF ICONIA, AN HONORABLE WIDOW, AFTER MUCH FLEEING FINALLY BEHEADED FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD, AT TARSUS, IN CILICIA, A. D. 304
• EUCRATIS, A VIRTUOUS MAIDEN, DIED IN PRISON, AT CAESAR AUGUSTA, AFTER RECEIVING MANY STRIPES AND WOUNDS, FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS, HER SAVIOUR, A. D. 302
• EULALIA, A CHRISTIAN MAIDEN, BURNED WITH LAMPS AND TORCHES, AND SUFFOCATED THEREBY, FOR THE FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, AT EMERITA IN LUSITANIA, A. D. 302
• Felicitas and Her Seven Sons