How does the world view believers according to Romans 8:36?
Romans 8:36 says believers are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, killed all the day long for Christ’s sake. The world views them as objects of persecution and hostility. This attitude has persisted from the Old Testament era, rooted in the world’s opposition to those who belong to their Creator God.
Les explains that Romans 8:36 reveals the world’s attitude toward the believer: they are killed all the day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter. This hostility has been present ever since the beginning of time, even back in the Old Testament economy, as seen when pagan peoples hated Israel because of their relationship with their Creator God. It hasn’t changed; it’s still the same way. Yet verse 37 declares that in all these things believers are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Verse 38 begins Paul’s persuasion, a word stronger in the Greek than mere consent.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
More Questions
What does Romans 8:36-37 say about being sheep for the slaughter and more than conquerors?
Despite being counted as sheep for the slaughter, believers are in all these things more than conquerors.