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 we are put to death 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 on the earth.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why are we also in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.
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 its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils 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 may be remembered no more.
Jeremiah 12:3
But You, O Jehovah, know me. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them 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 content 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 He opened not His mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
And why are we also in danger every hour?