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
Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalm 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
As sheep
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tested my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?