⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die^(A) in the arena. We have been made a spectacle^(B) to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ,^(C) but you are so wise in Christ!^(D) We are weak, but you are strong!^(E) You are honored, we are dishonored! ¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.^{(F) 12} We work hard with our own hands.^(G) When we are cursed, we bless;^(H) when we are persecuted,^(I) we endure it; ¹³ when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage^(J) of the world—right up to this moment.

³³ Who will bring any charge^(A) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns?^(B) No one. Christ Jesus who died^(C)—more than that, who was raised to life^(D)—is at the right hand of God^(E) and is also interceding for us.^{(F) 35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^(G) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^{(H) 36} As it is written:

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(J) through him who loved us.^{(K) 38} For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither the present nor the future,^(L) nor any powers,^{(M) 39} neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God^(N) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^(O)