Romans 8:32

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:31-39

Faith rising into assurance. We have appreciated the paradise of pardon, of acceptance, of sanctification, into which, in spite of this life's sufferings, believers in Jesus come. And now we are to study that hymn of courageous assurance, into which the apostle rises at the close of the chapter. Nowhere does St. Paul rise into nobler eloquence than here. I. THE BELIEVER 'S SOLILOQUY . ( Romans 8:31 , Romans 8:32 .) In this soliloquy the apostle reviews the whole previous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:32

The Gift which implies all gifts. One very desirable habit of Christian experience is the habit of connecting all spiritual privileges and all providential favours with the supreme Gift which God has conferred upon us in the bestowal of his own Son. It is this habit which the apostle encourages by the appeal of the text. I. THE ONE GIFT GOD ONCE GAVE . 1. The Person given was his own Son—the Only Begotten, the Well-beloved. 2. The sacrifice on the part of the Giver... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:32

A consolatory argument. This is one of the most wonderful chapters in all Scripture, for the height to which it soars and the breadth of its conceptions. It is rich in doctrine, in promise, and in consolation. Having climbed, as it were, the mount of God, the apostle reaches the summit, stands bathed in the very light of God. I. A GLORIOUS AND SOLEMN TRUTH COMMEMORATED . "God spared not his own Son." God has known what it is to be bereaved by the departure and death of his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:32

He that spared not - Who did not retain, or keep from suffering and death.His own Son - Who thus gave the highest proof of love that a father could give, and the highest demonstration of his willingness to do good to those for whom he gave him.But delivered him up - Gave him into the hands of men, and to a cruel death; Note, Acts 2:23.For us all - For all Christians. The connection requires that this expression should be understood here with this limitation. The argument for the security of all... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:31-32

Romans 8:31-32. What shall we then say to these things Related in the third, fifth, and eighth chapters, or conclude upon this review? Surely we may courageously defy all our enemies, and say, If God Who hath all power in himself, and all the events of time and eternity under his direction; be for us Our sure, never-failing, everlasting friend, engaged for our salvation and happiness in time and in eternity: or rather, since God is for us; for “ ει here, is not a conditional particle;... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 8:18-39

Christian confidence (8:18-39)Whatever sufferings believers may experience, they are of little significance when compared with the glory to be revealed on the day of final victory (18). On that day the physical creation, which from the time of Adam has suffered because of human sin (cf. Genesis 1:28-30; Genesis 3:17-18), will enter its full glory along with redeemed human life (19-22). All the effects of sin will be removed, and believers will be raised from the dead in imperishable spiritual... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 8:32

spared . Greek. pheidomai. See Acts 20:29 . delivered . . . up See John 19:30 . freely give . App-184 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 8:32

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?The confidence of the apostle in this verse is founded upon the principle of logic called "a fortiori", being a progression from the great to the lesser. The great gift is that of God's only Son; and surely the love that provided such an unspeakable gift could not fail to provide whatever else might be required to accomplish his purpose of redeeming people, the particular... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:32

32. He—rather, "He surely." (It is a pity to lose the emphatic particle of the original). that spared not—"withheld not," "kept not back." This expressive phrase, as well as the whole thought, is suggested by :-, where Jehovah's touching commendation of Abraham's conduct regarding his son Isaac seems designed to furnish something like a glimpse into the spirit of His own act in surrendering His own Son. "Take now (said the Lord to Abraham) thy son, thine only, whom thou lovest, and . . . offer... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 8:31-39

5. Our eternal security 8:31-39The apostle developed the fact that God will not lose one whom He has foreknown in this climactic section, and he gloried in this great truth. He asked and answered seven questions to drive home this truth."Nowhere in the annals of sacred literature do we find anything to match the power and beauty of this remarkable paean of praise." [Note: Mounce, p. 173.] "This whole passage . . . strikes all thoughtful interpreters and readers, as transcending almost every... read more

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