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 shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why also do we encounter danger 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 made manifest in our mortal flesh.
As sheep
Acts 8:32
And the passage of Scripture which he was reading, was this; As a sheep is led to slaughter, and as a lamb before one that shears him is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why also do we encounter danger every hour?