Romans 8:36

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
  • Acts 8:32 : 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 44:22
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    22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Rom 8:34-35
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    83%

    34who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

  • Rom 8:37-39
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    82%

    37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

    38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

    39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.

    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

  • 2 Cor 4:8-12
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    8[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

    9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • Rom 8:31-32
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    31What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us?

    32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

  • Heb 11:36-37
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    36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

    37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • Rom 8:17-18
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    17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified with [him] .

    18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

  • 1 Cor 4:9-13
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    9For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

    13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

  • Rom 6:8
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    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

  • Rom 5:8-9
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    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

    9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath [of God] through him.

  • 1 Cor 15:30-31
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    30Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

    31I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

  • Isa 53:6
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    6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5[ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • Rom 8:28
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    28And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.

  • Ps 44:11
    70%

    11Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

  • 2 Cor 1:6
    69%

    6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

  • Acts 8:32
    69%

    32Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:

  • 1 Thess 5:10
    69%

    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • Rom 8:1
    69%

    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

  • 2 Tim 3:12
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    12Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

  • Rom 3:9
    68%

    9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

  • Rom 8:12
    68%

    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

  • 2 Cor 11:23
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    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;

  • Rom 8:22
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    22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.