Romans 8:36

36 Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

Romans 8:36 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 8:36

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed
This passage is a citation out of ( Psalms 44:22 ) ; and the meaning is, that for the sake of God, and his pure worship, Old Testament saints were frequently put to death, or exposed to the persecutions of men, which often issued in death; as New Testament saints have been, for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, even

all the day long;
that is, they were liable to death all the day long; or every day, one or other of them was put to death:

we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter;
they were reckoned as fit for nothing else, and were continually exposed unto it; were used as sheep are, as if they were made for no other use and service, but to be slaughtered; hence they are called, "the flock of slaughter", ( Zechariah 11:7 ) ; and as this expresses the brutality of their persecutors, so their harmlessness, meekness, humility, and patience in sufferings, being under them like lambs or sheep. This testimony is produced, to show that suffering death has been the common lot of the saints in all ages: and is designed to animate the people of God under the Gospel dispensation, to suffer with cheerfulness; the allusion may be to the lambs and sheep daily slain for sacrifice; either to the lambs of the sacrifice slain morning and evening; or to others that were slain in any part of the day from morning to night, for other sacrifices, in the court of the tabernacle and temple.

Romans 8:36 In-Context

34 Who [is] the one who condemns? Christ [is] the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

36 Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

37 [No], but in all these [things] we prevail completely through the one who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,