Bible Verse Lookup
Rom 8:35-39
Chapter 8
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be trials, or anguish, persecution, or hunger, lack of clothing, or dangers, or the sword?
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As the scripture says: For your sake, we are being killed all day long; they treat us like sheep to be slaughtered.
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No, through all of this, we are more than conquerors, thanks to him who loved us.
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I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor spiritual powers, neither the present nor the future, nor cosmic powers—
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whether from heaven or the depths below—nor any creature whatsoever will separate us from the love of God, which we have in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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.