Romans 8:36
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36 As it is written,
(A)“For your sake (B)we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Psalm 44:22
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22 Yet (A)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Isaiah 53:7
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7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
(A)yet he opened not his mouth;
(B)like a (C)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 15:30
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30 Why are we (A)in danger every hour?
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2 Corinthians 4:10-11
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10 (A)always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, (B)so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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1 Corinthians 4:9
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, (A)like men sentenced to death, because we (B)have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
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Acts 8:32
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32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:
(A)“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
Jeremiah 51:40
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40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
Jeremiah 12:3
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3 (A)But you, O Lord, know me;
(B)you see me, and test my heart toward you.
(C)Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and set them apart for (D)the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 11:19
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19 But I was (A)like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know (B)it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
(C)let us cut him off from (D)the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”
John 16:2
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2 (A)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, (B)the hour is coming when (C)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
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Psalm 141:7
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7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones (A)be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 141:7 The meaning of the Hebrew in verses 6, 7 is uncertain
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