What Does Romans 8:36 Mean in the King James?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“For thy sake” sits inside a sentence about all-day killing, revealing that costly allegiance and mortal danger can occupy the same life.
THE MEANING
The words meet the reader where allegiance to God carries mortal cost: danger presses through the whole day. The sheep image makes the violence concrete, portraying people as counted for slaughter.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a faithful life must be protected from lethal harm; here, death meets the people precisely “for thy sake.”
THE ROOT
ἐλογίσθημεν
elogisthēmen
GROWS FROM
λογίζομαι (logizomai), from λογ- (log-)
To reckon, count, calculate, or take into account.
“accounted” in this verse is elogisthēmen. The verse says the group is reckoned as sheep for slaughter: violence places them in a category of bodies fit to be killed. The same verb appears in Romans 8:18 as “I reckon,” where suffering is weighed, setting two acts of reckoning beside one another in this chapter.
ALSO GROWS
logismos: Calculation, reasoning, or thought.
λογισμός
This related noun names the process of reckoning and highlights that the sheep image involves an assessment of the exposed.
logizomai: To reckon, count, or consider.
λογίζομαι
In Romans 8:18, this same verb is rendered “reckon” as present suffering is weighed, echoing the count placed on the people here.
THE PATTERN
Allegiance to God can expose a person to real violence, and scripture names that cost without disguising it.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.THE THREAD
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.The same Greek verb rendered “accounted” here appears as “reckon” in 8:18, where suffering is weighed against what will be revealed. The chapter places the count of slaughter-bound sheep beside a reckoning that does not let suffering have the final measure.
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