Romans 8:36

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As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

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  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
  • 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 Why too are we in danger every hour?
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 “I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.”
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • Acts 8:32 : 32 Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this:“He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body. 11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

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  • Ps 44:22
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    22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

  • Rom 8:34-35
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    34Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

    35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

  • Rom 8:37-39
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    37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

    38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

    39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

    8If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

  • 2 Cor 4:8-12
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    8We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

    9we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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

    32Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

  • Heb 11:36-37
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    36And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

    37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

  • Rom 8:17-18
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    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

    18For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.

  • 1 Cor 4:9-13
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    9For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

    10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

    11To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

    12We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

    13when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

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

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

    9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

  • 1 Cor 15:30-31
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    30Why too are we in danger every hour?

    31Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Isa 53:6
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    6All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

    5Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

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

  • Ps 44:11
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    11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

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

    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

  • 2 Cor 1:6
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    6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

  • Acts 8:32
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    32Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this:“He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

  • Rom 8:1
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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

  • 2 Tim 3:12
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    12Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

  • Rom 8:12
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    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

  • 2 Cor 11:23
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    23Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God 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 suffers together until now.