Romans 8:36

New English Translation

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Cross References

Psalm 141:7

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

Psalm 44:11

You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:22

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

Isaiah 53:7

He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

Jeremiah 11:19

Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

Jeremiah 51:40

“I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.”

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 20:24

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

Acts 8:32

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

1 Corinthians 15:30

Why too are we in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:31

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet – see! – we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

Philippians 3:10

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,