Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:36 in other translations
| BSB | As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” |
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| WEB | Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” |
| ASV | Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| YLT | (according as it hath been written--‘For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,') |
| DARBY | According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. |
| BBE | As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. |
| Webster | As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
What does Romans 8:36 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 8:35-36
35-36. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?--This does not mean "our love to Christ," as if, Who shall hinder us from loving Christ? but "Christ's love to us," as is clear from the closing words of the chapter, which refer to the same subject. Nor would the other sense harmonize with the scope of the chapter, which is to exhibit the ample ground of the believer's confidence in Christ. "It is no ground of…
Barnes' Notes
For thy sake. In thy cause; or on account of attachment to thee.
we are killed. We are subject to, or exposed to death. We endure suffering equivalent to dying. Comp. 1Cor 4:9, "God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death."
All the day long. Continually; constantly. There is no intermission to our danger, and to our exposure to death.
We are accounted. We are reckoned; we are regarded, or dealt with. That is, our enemies judge that we ought to die, and deem us the appropriate subjects of slaughter, with as little concern or remorse as the lives of sheep are taken.
(s) "For thy sake" Ps 44:22, 1Cor 15:30,31
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 8:32-39
All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest follows upon union with him, and interest in him. All things, all which can be the causes or means of any real good to the faithful Christian. He that has prepared a crown and a kingdom for us, will give us what we need in the…
Romans 8:36 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 8:36
- Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- 1 Corinthians 15:30
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
- 2 Corinthians 4:10-11
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
- Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
- Acts 20:24
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
- Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
- Jeremiah 12:3
But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: 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 he goats.
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Context
- Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Romans 8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:36 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como está escrito: Por causa de ti somos muertos todo el tiempo: somos estimados como ovejas de matadero. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Selon qu’il est écrit: « Pour l’amour de toi, nous sommes mis à mort tout le jour; nous avons été estimés comme des brebis de tuerie ». |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie geschrieben steht: "Um deinetwillen werden wir getötet den ganzen Tag; wie Schlachtschafe sind wir gerechnet worden". |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | (Sicut scriptum est: Quia propter te mortificamur tota die: æstimati sumus sicut oves occisionis.) |