Romans 8:31-39 (NKJV) (2024)

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be against us? ^32(B)He who did not spare His own Son, but ^(C)delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? ^(D)It is God who justifies. ^34(E)Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, ^(F)who is even at the right hand of God, ^(G)who also makes 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:

^(H)“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

^37(I)Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor ^(J)principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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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.

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.

³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor

To the Chief Musician. A ^(A)Contemplation^[a] of the sons of Korah.

44We have heard with our ears, O God,
^(B)Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:
^2(C)You drove out the ^[b]nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
³For ^(D)they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
^(E)Because You favored them.

^4(F)You are my King, ^[c]O God;
^[d]Command victories for Jacob.
⁵Through You ^(G)we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
⁶For ^(H)I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.
⁷But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.
^8(I)In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

⁹But ^(J)You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰You make us ^(K)turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken ^[e]spoil for themselves.
^11(L)You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have ^(M)scattered us among the nations.
^12(N)You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

^13(O)You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
^14(P)You make us a byword among the nations,
^(Q)A shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
¹⁶Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
^(R)Because of the enemy and the avenger.

^17(S)All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,
^(T)Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
¹⁹But You have severely broken us in ^(U)the place of jackals,
And covered us ^(V)with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ^(W)stretched^[f] out our hands to a foreign god,
^21(X)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
^22(Y)Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23(Z)Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
^24(AA)Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵For ^(AB)our soul is bowed down to the ^[g]dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
²⁶Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

44We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

²How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

³For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

⁴Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

⁵Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

⁷But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

⁸In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.