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]

Romans 8:36 in Other Translations

KJV
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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."
NLT
36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” )
MSG
36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
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.

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

Footnotes 1

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