Romans 8:36
Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered."

New Revised Standard Version
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Contemporary English Version
It is exactly as the Scriptures say, "For you we face death all day long. We are like sheep on their way to be butchered."

New American Bible
As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

For thy.

Psalm 44:22 Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 141:7 As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

1 Corinthians 15:30 Why also are we in danger every hour?

2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake: that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

as sheep.

Isaiah 53:7 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.

Jeremiah 11:19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 12:3 And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.

Acts 8:32 And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.

Context
More than Conquerors
35Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? 36(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) 37But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.…
Cross References
Psalm 44:11
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

Psalm 44:22
Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Acts 20:24
But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

1 Corinthians 15:30
Why also are we in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:31
I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

2 Corinthians 4:10
Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

2 Corinthians 6:9
As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:

2 Corinthians 11:23
They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Philippians 3:10
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

Romans 8:35
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