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More than Conquerors

Romans 8:36

In 9 translations

BSB
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”Psalms 44:22
KJV
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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.
LSV
According as it has been written: “For Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we were reckoned as sheep of 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,')
DBY
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.
DRC
(As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)
GNV
As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Spelling of ἕνεκεν: Textus Receptus: Ἕνεκά.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Ἕνεκεν σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.
RP2018
Καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Ἕνεκέν σου θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν· ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.
TR-Boyd
Καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Ἕνεκά σου θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν· ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.
SCR1894
καθως γεγραπται οτι ενεκα σου θανατουμεθα ολην την ημεραν ελογισθημεν ως προβατα σφαγης

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
  • Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:30And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
  • 2 Corinthians 4:10–11We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also…
  • Acts 8:32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  • 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
  • Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
  • John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
  • Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered…
  • Jeremiah 12:3But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  • Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
  • Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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