Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;