Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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Bible References

Yea

Romans 8:36
As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

Killed

Psalm 44:11
You hand us over to be eaten like sheep
and scatter us among the nations.
Psalm 79:2
They gave the corpses of Your servants
to the birds of the sky for food,
the flesh of Your godly ones
to the beasts of the earth.
1 Samuel 22:17
Then the king ordered the guards standing by him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the Lord.
1 Kings 19:10
He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”
Matthew 5:10
Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.
John 16:2
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why are we in danger every hour?
Revelation 11:3
I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 17:6
Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

General references

Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams together with male goats.

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