Romans 8:35-36

8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ¹  8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ² 

[8:35]  ¹ tn Here “sword” is a metonymy that includes both threats of violence and acts of violence, even including death (although death is not necessarily the only thing in view here).

[8:36]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 44:22.