Romans 8:36

Romans 8:36 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
• New International Version (NIV)As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
• New King James Version (NKJV)As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Context of Romans 8:36

34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Romans 8:36 word by word

καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι ἕνεκεν σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.Read the interlinear

• Asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
• it is writtenγράφωgraphō · to writeG1125
• ·ὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• For Your sakeἕνεκαheneka heneken heineken · because ofG1752
• For Your sakeσύsu · youG4771
• we face deathθανατόωthanatoō · to killG2289
• allὅλοςholos · allG3650
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• day longἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• we are consideredλογίζομαιlogizomai · to countG3049
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• sheepπρόβατονprobaton · sheepG4263
• to be slaughteredσφαγήsphagē · slaughterG4967

Cross-references for Romans 8:36

• Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
• 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.
• 1 Corinthians 15:30And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
• 2 Corinthians 4:11For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
• 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.
• 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 no more.”
• 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.
• 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.

Commentaries on Romans 8:36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 36As it is written - And these are no more than we may naturally expect from the present constitution of the world, and the positive predictions of the prophet, Psalm 44:22, who foresaw that a wicked world would always persecute and oppress the true followers of God.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 36As it is written - Psalm 44:22. This passage the apostle quotes not as having originally reference to Christians, but as “aptly descriptive” of their condition. The condition of saints in the time of the psalmist was similar to that of Christians in the time of Paul. The same language would express both. For thy sake - In thy cause; or on account of attachment to time. We are killed - We are subject to, or exposed to death. We endure sufferings equivalent…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 32-39Verses 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 way to it. Men may justify…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 35-3635-36. 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 confidence to assert, or even to feel…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 8:36

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Martyrdom
• Paul
• Persecution
• Quotations and Allusions
• Righteous
• Self-Denial
• Temptation

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• Afflictions
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• Bondage
• Carnal
• Enmity
• Fear
• Flesh
• Foreknow
• Glorify
• Indeed

Commentaries on Romans 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings