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.

As sheep

General references

Bible References

For thy

John 16:2
They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service.
1 Corinthians 15:30
and why do we also expose ourselves to danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who are yet alive are continually delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

As sheep

Acts 8:32
The portion of scripture which he had been reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before him who sheareth it is dumb, so he opened not his mouth:

General references

1 Corinthians 15:30
and why do we also expose ourselves to danger every hour?