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Romans 8:36

James Moffatt - New Testament

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

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Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

(Not a day but I am at death's door! I swear it by my pride in you, brothers, through Christ Jesus our Lord.)

in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;

'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed,

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this! ), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,




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