You are a living martyr for the Lord Jesus, loving Him more than your own life and doing His will, not your own.

“that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.” (Rev 13:15)

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses [martys (a martyr bears witness by dying for Jesus)] to Me” (Acts 1:8)

“For to you it has been granted [charizomai] on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Phil 1:29)

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1)

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (Jn 15:18-19)

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (Jn 16:33)

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1Jn 4:4)

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” (1Jn 5:4)

“He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life [psuche] for My sake will find it.” (Matt 10:39)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life [psuche] for My sake will find it.” (Matt 16:25)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life [psuche] for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (Mk 8:35)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life [psuche] for My sake will save it.” (Lk 9:24)

“Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life [psuche] will preserve it.” (Lk 17:33)

“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1Jn 3:14)

“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” (Jn 13:1)

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul [psuche]. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul [psuche] and body in hell.” (Matt 10:28)

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life [psuche]” (Matt 6:25)

“Then He said to His disciples, Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life [psuche]” (Lk 12:22)

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.” (1Jn 2:15-16)

“Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (Jm 4:4)

“Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.” (Lk 11:47)

“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers” (Acts 7:52)

“For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans, who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men” (1Thes 2:14-15)

Reading: Ps 111-113; Rev 13