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Romans 8:36

Suffering

34 Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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BSB
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
KJV
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
WEB
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
ASV
Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
DARBY
According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
BLB
As it has been written: “For Your sake we face death all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”
ÅB
Som det er skrevet: «For din skyld drepes vi dagen lang. Vi blir regnet som slaktesauer.»
OTB
Som skriften sier:
"For din skyld møter vi død hele dagen;
vi regnes som slaktefår."
B1930
som skrevet er: For din skyld drepes vi hele dagen; vi er regnet som slaktefår.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 44:22

    Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

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  • Isaiah 53:7

    He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

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  • 1 Corinthians 15:30

    And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:10–11

    We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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  • 1 Corinthians 4:9

    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

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  • Acts 8:32

    The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

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  • Acts 20:24

    But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

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  • Jeremiah 11:19

    For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

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