Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- BSB Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- NKJV Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- NASB But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
- NLT But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
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Quick answer
It is for God's sake that they are killed all day long, regarded as sheep for slaughter. It matters because it names their suffering as endured for God, not for sin.
Overview
This climactic verse declares their affliction is suffered on God's account. Paul quotes it in Romans 8 to describe the suffering of Christians, immediately affirming that in all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us. Thus the church's hardship is taken up into the assurance of God's inseparable love in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Rom 8:36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
- Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
- Ps 44:11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
- John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
- John 16:2–3They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
- 1 Cor 4:9For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- 1 Cor 15:30–31Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
- Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- 1 Kgs 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
- 1 Sam 22:17–19The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
- Rev 11:3–9I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Ps 79:2–3They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
- Rev 17:6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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