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Romans 8:36

Suffering

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 from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through 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,

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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

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

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  • Isaiah 53:7

    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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 15:30

    And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:10–11

    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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 4:9

    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.

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  • Acts 8:32

    The place 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:

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  • Acts 20:24

    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 grace of God.

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  • Jeremiah 11:19

    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.

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