Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yea
Killed
General references
Bible References
Yea
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Killed
Psalm 44:11
You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 79:2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth.
1 Samuel 22:17
The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.
1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
John 15:21
But all these things will they do to you because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For, 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 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Revelation 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
General references
Jeremiah 51:40
"I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.