Bible Verse Lookup
Rom 8:31-34
Chapter 8
31
What should we say after this? If God is with us, who can be against us?
32
If he did not hold back his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us everything along with him?
33
Who will accuse those chosen by God? He removes their guilt.
34
Who will dare condemn them? Christ, who died and, even better, rose and is seated at the right hand of God, interceding for us?
Commentaries
The Love of God.
Paul concludes the chapter with a triumphant song about the love that God and Christ have for us. Thanks to Him, we will come out victorious from all the tribulations life may bring. Although the paragraph begins with man’s love for God, the initiative does not come from man, because it was God who started by choosing, predestining, calling, making righteous, and glorifying (29f). The Apostle does not speak of “the predestined” as if he were referring to ‘us’ as opposed to “others,” but quite the opposite. The emphasis is on God’s initiative in salvation, which is universal; that’s why Jesus Christ is the “firstborn of many” (29) without exception. God has taken the side of men and women of every nation, race, and religion in an act of love from which nothing and no one can separate us, and which extends beyond death, for it is a promise of resurrection.