¹⁶ You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. Some of you they will cause to be put to death.

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

⁵³ They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

¹¹ They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

¹³ "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁰ This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

¹¹ Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

² He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

⁵⁹ They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"

¹² "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

²¹ "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

⁵ Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, Be careful of the words of your mouth!

⁶ For the son dishonors the father, The daughter rises up against her mother, The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

⁶ For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

⁴ Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.