📜WEB · Romans 8:36

What does Romans 8:36 mean?

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

— Romans 8:36 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

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Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

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No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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