Romans 8:36

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It is exactly as the Scriptures say, “For you we face death all day long. We are like sheep on their way to be butchered.”

Cross References

Psalm 141:7

and their bones lie scattered like broken rocks on top of a grave.

Psalm 44:11

You let us be slaughtered like sheep, and you scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:22

We face death all day for you. We are like sheep on their way to be slaughtered.

Isaiah 53:7

He was painfully abused, but he did not complain. He was silent like a lamb being led to the butcher, as quiet as a sheep having its wool cut off.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you know, LORD, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep!

Jeremiah 51:40

I will lead them away to die, like sheep, lambs, and goats being led to the butcher.

John 16:2

You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favour.

Acts 20:24

But I don't care what happens to me, as long as I finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do. And that work is to tell the good news about God's great kindness.

Acts 8:32

The man was reading the passage that said, “He was led like a sheep on its way to be killed. He was silent as a lamb whose wool is being cut off, and he did not say a word.

1 Corinthians 15:30

And why do we always risk our lives

1 Corinthians 15:31

and face death every day? The pride that I have in you because of Christ Jesus our Lord is what makes me say this.

1 Corinthians 4:9

It seems to me that God has put us apostles in the worst possible place. We are like prisoners on their way to death. Angels and the people of this world just laugh at us.

2 Corinthians 1:9

In fact, we felt sure that we were going to die. But this made us stop trusting in ourselves and start trusting God, who raises the dead to life.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I am a fool to talk this way, but I serve him better than they do. I have worked harder and have been put in jail more times. I have been beaten with whips more and have been in danger of death more often.

2 Corinthians 6:9

We are unknown to others, but well known to you. We seem to be dying, and yet we are still alive. We have been punished, but never killed,

Philippians 3:10

All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did,