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, an hour is coming, that every one who kills you will think that he is offering service to God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why, too, are we in peril every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always 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
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why, too, are we in peril every hour?