Romans 8:35 KJV

Romans · chapter 8 · verse 35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:35 · King James Version

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Romans 8:35 in context

33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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Commentary

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

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Key words (Strong's)

tribulationthlipsisa pressing, pressing together, pressure, metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation…G2347 →
persecutiondiōgmospersecutionG1375 →
nakednessgymnotēsnakedness of the bodyG1132 →
separatechōrizōto separate, divide, part, put asunder, to separate one's self from, to depart, to leave…G5563 →
distressstenochōrianarrowness of place, a narrow place, metaph. dire calamity, extreme afflictionG4730 →
ChristchristosChrist = &quot anointed&quot , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →

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