Romans 8:36

New Living Translation

(As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.")

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Even the Good Book says, "For the sake of the brand, we ride in danger every single day. We are being butchered like sheep."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

Legacy Standard Bible
Just as it is written,"For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;We were counted as sheep for the slaughter."

Bible in Basic English
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.

Darby Translation
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.

Christian Standard Bible®
As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

World English Bible
Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

Weymouth's New Testament
As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are, all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon as sheep destined for slaughter."

King James Version (1611)
(As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, wee are accounted as sheepe for the slaughter.)

Literal Translation
Even as it has been written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day; we are counted as sheep of slaughter." Psa. 44:22

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for as it is written , "for thy sake we are sacrificed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:"

Amplified Bible
Just as it is written and forever remains written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE REGARDED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER."

American Standard Version
Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Revised Standard Version
As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye longe and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne.

Update Bible Version
Even as it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Webster's Bible Translation
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Young's Literal Translation
(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,')

New Century Version
As it is written in the Scriptures: "For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed." Psalm 44:22

New English Translation
As it is written, " For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered ."

Berean Standard Bible
As it is written: "For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

Contemporary English Version
It is exactly as the Scriptures say, "For you we face death all day long. We are like sheep on their way to be butchered."

Complete Jewish Bible
As the Tanakh puts it, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered."

English Standard Version
As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

Geneva Bible (1587)
As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

George Lamsa Translation
As it is written, For your sake we die every day, and we are accounted as lambs for the slaughter.

Hebrew Names Version
Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

International Standard Version
As it is written,Psalm 44:22; 1 Corinthians 15:30-31; 2 Corinthians 4:11;">[xr] "For your sake we are being killed all day long.We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered."Psalm 44:22">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
As it is written: For thee all the day long are we killed, We are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.

Murdock Translation
As it is written: For thy sake, we die daily: and, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

New King James Version
As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long;We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Psalms 44:22 ">[fn]

New Life Bible
The Holy Writings say, "Because of belonging to Jesus, we are in danger of being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep that are ready to be killed."

English Revised Version
Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

New Revised Standard
As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
According as it is written - For thy sake, are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. -

Douay-Rheims Bible
(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

King James Version
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Lexham English Bible
Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day long; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye long, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

Easy-to-Read Version
As the Scriptures say, "For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed."

New American Standard Bible
Just as it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE REGARDED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As it is writun, For we ben slayn al dai for thee; we ben gessid as scheep of slauytir.

Contextual Overview

³¹ What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? ³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else? ³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. ³⁵ Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? ³⁶ (As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") ³⁷ No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. ³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. ³⁹ No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For thy: Psalms 44:22, Psalms 141:7, John 16:2, 1 Corinthians 15:30, 2 Corinthians 4:11

as sheep: Isaiah 53:7, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 12:3, Jeremiah 51:40, Acts 8:32

Reciprocal: Psalms 44:11 - given Psalms 49:14 - Like Psalms 79:3 - Their Psalms 119:109 - My soul Isaiah 59:15 - he that Matthew 5:11 - for John 16:33 - In the 1 Corinthians 4:9 - as 1 Corinthians 15:31 - die 2 Corinthians 6:4 - distresses 2 Corinthians 6:9 - behold 2 Corinthians 11:27 - nakedness 2 Timothy 1:8 - be thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed,.... This passage is a citation out of Psalms 44:22; and the meaning is, that for the sake of God, and his pure worship, Old Testament saints were frequently put to death, or exposed to the persecutions of men, which often issued in death; as New Testament saints have been, for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, even

all the day long; that is, they were liable to death all the day long; or every day, one or other of them was put to death:

we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter; they were reckoned as fit for nothing else, and were continually exposed unto it; were used as sheep are, as if they were made for no other use and service, but to be slaughtered; hence they are called, "the flock of slaughter", Zechariah 11:7; and as this expresses the brutality of their persecutors, so their harmlessness, meekness, humility, and patience in sufferings, being under them like lambs or sheep. This testimony is produced, to show that suffering death has been the common lot of the saints in all ages: and is designed to animate the people of God under the Gospel dispensation, to suffer with cheerfulness; the allusion may be to the lambs and sheep daily slain for sacrifice; either to the lambs of the sacrifice slain morning and evening; or to others that were slain in any part of the day from morning to night, for other sacrifices, in the court of the tabernacle and temple.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As it is written - Psalms 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 to dying; compare 1 Corinthians 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. As 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, Psalms 44:22, who foresaw that a wicked world would always persecute and oppress the true followers of God.