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Romans 8:31 KJV
Romans · chapter 8 · verse 31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?Romans 8:31 · King James Version
What Romans 8:31 means
If God be for us, who can be against us isn't a claim that nobody opposes you. Plenty opposed Paul and he knew their names. The question is about weight, not headcount — who can stand against the one who is for you. And it lands right after a list of what God has already done.
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Romans 8:31 in context
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
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- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- sayereōto utter, speak, sayG2046 →
- Godtheosa god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities, the Godhead, trinity, God the…G2316 →
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The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. Having largely set forth the mystery of God's love to us in Christ, and the exceedingly great and precious privileges we enjoy by him, he concludes like an orator: What shall we then say to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 31-39