Romans 8:31-39
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his
own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who
dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has
given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ
Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place
of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does
it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted,
or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures
say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like
sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through
Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us
from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can
separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed,
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God
that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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