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
Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
Psalm 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why too are we in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.
As sheep
Isaiah 53:7
He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, "Let's destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let's remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more."
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!
Jeremiah 51:40
"I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats."
Acts 8:32
Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why too are we in danger every hour?