Romans 8:36

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

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Romans 8:36 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
English Standard Version (ESV)
36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
New Living Translation (NLT)
36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” )
The Message Bible (MSG)
36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
American Standard Version (ASV)
36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
36 As Scripture says: "We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered."
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
36 As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
36 It is written, "Because of you, we face death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be killed." (Psalm 44:22)

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 then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship 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 demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Cross References 1

  • 1. Psalms 44:22; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 15:30,31; 2 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 11:23

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