Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Bible References
For thy
Psalm 44:22
But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
Psalm 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;
As sheep
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah 12:3
But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Acts 8:32
And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?