Romans 8:36

KJV1611 – Modern English

As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'

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  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 And why do we stand 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 silent, so he does not open his mouth.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with goats.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • Acts 8:32 : 32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb silent before its shearer, so He did not open His mouth.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. 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 mouth of the grave, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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  • Ps 44:22
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    22Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Rom 8:34-35
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    83%

    34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

    35Who shall separate us from 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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    37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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

    39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, 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 lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

    8For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 4:8-12
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    8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

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

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

    12So then, death works 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 can be against us?

    32He who did not spare 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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    36Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

    37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

  • 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 indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

    18For I consider 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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    9For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

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

    11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

    12And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.

    13Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

  • Rom 6:8
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    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.

  • Rom 5:8-9
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    8But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

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

    31I affirm, by the boasting in you 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 the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed beyond measure, above strength, so much that we despaired even of life.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4So that we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:

    5Which is a clear sign of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:

  • Rom 8:28
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    28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

  • Ps 44:11
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    11You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
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    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:6
    69%

    6And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

  • Acts 8:32
    69%

    32The place in the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb silent before its shearer, so He did not open His mouth.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • Rom 8:1
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16For this reason we do not lose heart; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

  • 2 Tim 3:12
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    12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • Rom 8:12
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    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 11:23
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    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

  • Rom 8:22
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    22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.