Romans 8:36 “As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are co…”

Romans 8:36

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

(according as it hath been written — 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

Bible in Basic English

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

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Cross references

“For thy”

Psalm 44:22 1 Corinthians 15:30 John 16:2 Psalm 141:7 2 Corinthians 4:11

Psalm 44:22 · BSB

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

1 Corinthians 15:30 · BSB

And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

John 16:2 · BSB

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Psalm 141:7 · BSB

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

2 Corinthians 4:11 · BSB

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

“as sheep”

Isaiah 53:7 Acts 8:32 Jeremiah 11:19 Jeremiah 12:3 Jeremiah 51:40

Isaiah 53:7 · BSB

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.

Acts 8:32 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 11:19 · BSB

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…

Jeremiah 12:3 · BSB

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

Jeremiah 51:40 · BSB

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Also

2 Corinthians 4:10–11 1 Corinthians 4:9 Acts 20:24

2 Corinthians 4:10–11 · BSB

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

1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB

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.

Acts 20:24 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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