Romans 8:36

World English Bible (2000)

Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were 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 regarded 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 didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to 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. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold 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 fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to 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 didn't know that they had devised devices 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 no more remembered.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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  • Ps 44:22
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    22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Rom 8:34-35
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    34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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

  • Rom 8:37-39
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    37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

    39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will 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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    7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

    8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live 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 crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

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

    10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

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

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

    32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

  • Heb 11:36-37
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    36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

    37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, 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 indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

    18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

  • 1 Cor 4:9-13
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    9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

    11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

    12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

    13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

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

  • Rom 5:8-9
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    8 But God commends his own 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 will be saved from God's wrath through him.

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

    31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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

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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

    5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

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

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    11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
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    13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:6
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    6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

  • Acts 8:32
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    32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11 This saying is faithful: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Rom 8:12
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    12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

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