Romans 8:36

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“As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.””

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BSBPD

“As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 8:36 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
  2. Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
  3. Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  4. Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
  5. Jeremiah 12:3But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  6. Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
  7. John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
  8. Acts 8:32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  9. Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
  10. 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
  11. 1 Corinthians 15:30And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
  12. 2 Corinthians 4:10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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