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.

General references

Bible References

For thy

Psalm 44:22
Because of You we are slain all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalm 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the soil,
turning up rocks,
so our bones have been scattered
at the mouth of Sheol.
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 15:30
Why are we in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus’ life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

As sheep

Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
Jeremiah 12:3
As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.
You test whether my heart is with You.
Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter
and set them apart for the day of killing.
Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams together with male goats.
Acts 8:32
Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

General references

1 Corinthians 15:30
Why are we in danger every hour?

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