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 expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why, too, do we risk our lives every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature.
As sheep
Acts 8:32
The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this--'Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why, too, do we risk our lives every hour?