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
Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Psalm 141:7
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
John 16:2
{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why are we in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus 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; he was brought like lamb to [the] slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
And I [was] like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, [saying], "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from [the] land of [the] living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test [that] my heart [is] with you. Tear them apart like sheep for [the] slaughtering, and set them apart for [the] day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 51:40
"I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats.
Acts 8:32
Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer [is] silent, so he did not open his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why are we in danger every hour?