Romans 8:36 (DRB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Romans 8:34 Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 8:35 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

Romans 8:36 (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

Romans 8:38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sheep", "written", "sake", "death", "long", "accounted", and "slaughter". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sheep" and "written", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 35's "Who then shall separate us from the..." into verse 37's "But in all these things we overcome...", so "sheep" and "written" belong inside that flow. In Romans context, the local focus is righteousness by faith, union with Christ, life in the Spirit, and God's covenant faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sheep" and "written" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.