The Believer’s Triumph

31 What then are we to say about these things?(A)
If God is for us, who is against us?(B)
32 He did not even spare His own Son(C)
but offered Him up for us all;(D)
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?
33 Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?(E)
God is the One who justifies.(F)
34 Who is the one who condemns?(G)
Christ Jesus is the One who died,(H)
but even more, has been raised;(I)
He also is at the right hand of God(J)
and intercedes for us.(K)
35 Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction(L) or anguish or persecution(M)
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;(N)
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.(O)[a]
37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious(P)
through Him who loved us.(Q)
38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life,(R)
angels or rulers,(S)
things present or things to come,(T) hostile powers,
39 height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God(U) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!(V)

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31 What, then, are we to say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare even his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all — is it possible that, having given us his Son, he would not give us everything else too? 33 So who will bring a charge against God’s chosen people? Certainly not God — he is the one who causes them to be considered righteous! 34 Who punishes them? Certainly not the Messiah Yeshua, who died and — more than that — has been raised, is at the right hand of God and is actually pleading on our behalf! 35 Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Trouble? Hardship? Persecution? Hunger? Poverty? Danger? War? 36 As the Tanakh puts it,

“For your sake we are being put to death all day long,
we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are superconquerors, through the one who has loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers, neither what exists nor what is coming, 39 neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:23(22)