Romans 8:36

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Cross References

Psalm 141:7

As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.

Psalm 44:11

Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:22

Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 12:3

But thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my mind toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 20:24

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “As a sheep led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

1 Corinthians 15:30

Why am I in peril every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;

Philippians 3:10

that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,