Romans 8:36 (KJV)

Passage

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nearby Context

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

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sheep", "written", "sake", "killed", "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 shall separate us from the love..." into verse 37's "Nay in all these things we are...", 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.