Romans 8:36

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are 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 counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth 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 time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
  • Acts 8:32 : 32 The ple of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the gre of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought 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 LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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  • 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Rom 8:34-35
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    34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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

  • Rom 8:37-39
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    37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquers thugh him that loved us.

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

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

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

    8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and 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 troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

    9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

    11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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

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

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

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

    37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

  • 9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • Rom 8:17-18
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    17 And 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 together.

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

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

    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

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

    12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

    13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

  • 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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

    9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved fm wrath thugh him.

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    30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

    31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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

  • 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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    4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

    5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

  • 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

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    13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

    14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

  • 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

  • 32 The ple of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

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

  • 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

  • 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  • 11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

  • 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before pved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

  • 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

  • 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

  • 22 For we know that the whole creation ganeth and travaileth in pain together until now.