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Romans 8:35-37
New English Translation
Romans 8:35-37
New English Translation
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?[a] 36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[b] 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory[c] through him[d] who loved us!
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- Romans 8:35 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).
- Romans 8:36 sn A quotation from Ps 44:22.
- Romans 8:37 tn BDAG 1034 s.v. ὑπερνικάω states, “as a heightened form of νικᾶν prevail completely ὑπερνικῶμεν we are winning a most glorious victory Ro 8:37.”
- Romans 8:37 tn Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.
Romans 8:35-37
New International Version
Romans 8:35-37
New International Version
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?(A) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?(B) 36 As it is written:
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors(D) through him who loved us.(E)
Footnotes
- Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
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