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 will condemn them? Christ has died, and more importantly, he was brought back to life. Christ is in the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne. Christ also intercedes for us. 35What will separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love? As Scripture says: “We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties. 38I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces

Romans 8:36 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
• it is writtenγράφωgraphō · to writeG1125
• Forὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• thyσύsu · youG4771
• sakeἕνεκαheneka heneken heineken · because ofG1752
• we are killedθανατόωthanatoō · to killG2289
• allὅλοςholos · allG3650
• the day longὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the day longἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• we are accountedλογίζομαιlogizomai · to countG3049
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• sheepπρόβατονprobaton · sheepG4263
• for the slaughterσφαγήsphagē · slaughterG4967

Cross-references for Romans 8:36

• Psalms 44:22Indeed, we are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Psalms 141:7As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
• John 16:2You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God.
• 1 Corinthians 15:30Why are we constantly putting ourselves in danger?
• 2 Corinthians 4:11While we are alive, we are constantly handed over to death for Jesus’ sake so that the life of Jesus is also shown in our mortal nature.
• Isaiah 53:7He was abused and punished, but he didn’t open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was like a sheep that is silent when its wool is cut off. He didn’t open his mouth.
• Jeremiah 11:19I was like a trusting lamb brought to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they were plotting against me. They were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit. Let’s cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we won’t be reminded of him anymore.”
• Jeremiah 12:3You know me, O Lord. You see me and test my devotion to you. Drag them away like sheep to be slaughtered. Prepare them for the day of slaughter.
• Jeremiah 51:40I will take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.
• Acts 8:32This was the part of the Scriptures that the official was reading: “He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was like a sheep that is silent when its wool is cut off. He didn’t 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
• Allow
• 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