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
For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
Psalm 141:7
Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.
John 16:2
They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Yea, and why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we which live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might appear in our mortal flesh.
As sheep
Isaiah 53:7
He suffered wrong and was evil entreated, and yet opened not his mouth: he was as a sheep led to be slain: and as a lamb before his shearer, he was dumb and opened not his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I, as a meek lamb, was carried away to be slain: not knowing, that they had devised such a counsel against me saying, "We will destroy his meat with wood, and drive him out of the land of the living: that his name shall never be thought upon."
Jeremiah 12:3
But thou LORD, to whom I am well known, thou that hast seen, and proved my heart; take them away, like as a flock is carried to the slaughter house, and appoint them for the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 51:40
I shall carry them down to be slain like sheep, like whethers and goats.
Acts 8:32
The tenor of the scripture which he read was this, "He was led as a sheep to be slain: And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Yea, and why stand we in jeopardy every hour?