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Romans 8:36

Romans 8:36 is verse 36 of Romans chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

Psalms 44:22

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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.”

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Romans 8:34–38 · Berean Standard Bible

34 Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

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

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

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

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 44:22

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

Psalms 141:7

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

John 16:2

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.

1 Corinthians 15:30

And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

2 Corinthians 4:11

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.

Isaiah 53:7

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.

Jeremiah 11:19

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 more.”

Jeremiah 12:3

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

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

Acts 8:32

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.

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