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.
As sheep
General references
Bible References
For thy
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, the hour is coming when every one that killeth you will think that he is offering sacrifice to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why also do we stand in peril every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
As sheep
Acts 8:32
And the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he openeth not his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why also do we stand in peril every hour?