Romans 8:36 (LSB)

Passage

Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Nearby Context

Romans 8:34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or turmoil, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 35's "Who will separate us from the love..." into verse 37's "But in all these things we overwhelmingly...", so "sheep" and "just" 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 "just" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.