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.

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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:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a](I)

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
  2. Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers

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