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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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Commentators explain that Paul quotes Psalm 44:22 to show that intense suffering has always been a reality for God's faithful people. Just as saints in the Old Testament were persecuted for their devotion, so too were the early Christians. This verse connects believers across history, reminding them that their trials are not a sign that God has abandoned them, but a shared experience of the faithful.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As it is written (Psalms 44:22). The apostle quotes this passage not because it originally referred to Christians, but because…
Even as it is written (καθως γεγραπτα). He quotes Ps 44:23.
We are killed (θανατουμεθα). Present passive i…
19th Century
Anglican
For thy sake we are killed.—The quotation is taken from Psalms 44:22, which was apparently written at some period of grea…
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Baptist
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
But have they divided th…
From this point on to the end of the chapter Paul expounds the impregnable position of the believer. The key lies in the sentence “If God is for us…
16th Century
Protestant
As it is written, etc. This testimony adds considerable weight to the subject, for he intimates that the dread of death is so far…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As it is written, for your sake we are killed This passage is a citation out of (Psalms 44:22) ; and the…
All things whatsoever, in heaven and earth, are not as great a display of God's free love as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the…
13th Century
Catholic