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Romans 8:36

“As it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all the day; we were counted as sheep for slaughter.”

Romans 8:36 · direct translation from the Greek
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Quotation · Psalms 44:22

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Paul quotes Psalm 44:22 almost word for word.

Formula: καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι “as it is written” (Romans 8:36)

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Greek of the New Testament: καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Ἕνεκεν σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς

Hebrew (Masoretic text): כִּי עָלֶיךָ הֹרַגְנוּ כָל הַיּוֹם נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ כְּצֹאן טִבְחָה

Septuagint (Psalms 43:23 in the Septuagint numbering): ὅτι ἕνεκα σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.

The Greek of the NT matches the Septuagint word for word in 9 consecutive words: “σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.”

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

Romans 8:36, word by word

it is writtenγέγραπταιgegraptai

it is written

So the Bible says; a passage is quoted.

Where else “gegraptai” appears
For your sakeἝνεκενHeneken

because of

On account of, for the sake of.

Where else “Heneken” appears
we are being put to deathθανατούμεθαthanatoumetha

put to death

To take someone's life.

Where else “thanatoumetha” appears
allὅληνholēn

whole, all

Whole, entire, all.

Where else “holēn” appears
the dayἡμέρανhēmeran

day

A span counted on the calendar: “on the third day,” “forty days.”

Where else “hēmeran” appears
we were countedἐλογίσθημενelogisthēmen

reckon

To put something to someone's account: "it was reckoned as righteousness".

Where else “elogisthēmen” appears
sheepπρόβαταprobata

flock

The people a shepherd cares for, God's people.

Where else “probata” appears
for slaughterσφαγῆςsphagēs

slaughter

Slaughter; "to the slaughter".

Where else “sphagēs” appears

Translation note

Psalm 44:22.

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Quotation · Psalms 44:22

Paul quotes Psalm 44:22 almost word for word.

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Romans 8:36

36As it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all the day; we were counted as sheep for slaughter.

Psalms 44:22

22For for your sake we are killed all the day; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

The context

35Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36 · This verse (above)

37But in all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us.

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  1. 1. What it says

    What does Paul say in vv. 38-39 will not be able to separate us from the love of God?

  2. 2. What it means

    Paul begins by saying there is no condemnation for those in the Messiah Jesus (v. 1). What does that mean to you?

  3. 3. How I live it

    The Spirit helps us in weakness when we do not know what to ask (v. 26). How do you pray when you cannot find words?

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