36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. …
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-39)The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. Having largely set forth the mystery of God’s love to us in Christ, and the exceedingly great and precious privileges we enjoy by him, he concludes like an orator: What shall we then say to these things ? What use shall we make of all that has been said? He speaks as one…
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