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
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalm 141:7
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
As sheep
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he did not open his mouth.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised devices 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, LORD, know me; you see me, and try 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
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?