Romans 8:35-39·~1 min

More than Conquerors

Paul asks what could separate believers from the love of Christ. Through trouble and sword, cited from the psalms, believers are more than conquerors through the one who loved them. Paul is convinced that no death, no life, no angel, no power, no height, no depth, no creature can separate them from the love of God in Christ.

W³⁵ho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written: ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Section summaryNothing separates the believer from the love of Christ. Trouble, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword — through all of them the believer is more than a conqueror through the one who loved them. No height, no depth, no power in all creation can separate them from the love of God in Christ.

Role in the chapterThis closing section turns the chapter’s argument into a hymn of assurance that carries the entire first half of Romans.