Romans 8:33-39 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 8:31-39

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 these things? What use shall we make of all that has been said? He speaks as one amazed and swallowed up with the contemplation and admiration of it, wondering at the height and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 8:31-39

8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall impeach the elect of God? It is God who acquits. Who is he who condemns? It is Jesus Christ who died, nay rather, who was raised from the dead, and who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Shall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:33

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ?.... The elect of God are a certain select number of persons, whom he has so loved, as of his sovereign good will and pleasure, to choose in Christ before the foundation of the world, unto eternal life and salvation, by certain ways and means of his own appointing, as sanctification and faith, so that they are peculiarly his: but are these persons chargeable with nothing criminal? yes, with Adam's sin; with a want of original... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:34

Who is he that condemneth ,.... That is, the elect of God: all mankind are deserving of condemnation, and are under the sentence of it, as in Adam; some are foreordained to condemnation; all in final impenitence and unbelief, are condemned already; and the whole world of the ungodly will be condemned at the last day; but none of God's elect are, or shall be condemned: for they are loved with an everlasting love; they are chosen unto salvation; they are in Christ, where there is no... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ?.... By "the love of Christ" is not meant the saints' love to Christ, but his love to them; he is indeed the object of their love, and so strong is their love to him, that it can never be destroyed; for though there may be an abatement in the fervour of it, it can never be lost; yet this is never called the love of Christ: besides, the apostle is speaking not of their love to Christ, but of the love of God and Christ to them, throughout the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:36

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed ,.... This passage is a citation out of Psalm 44:22 ; and the meaning is, that for the sake of God, and his pure worship, Old Testament saints were frequently put to death, or exposed to the persecutions of men, which often issued in death; as New Testament saints have been, for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, even all the day long ; that is, they were liable to death all the day long; or every day, one or other of them was put to death: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:37

Nay, in all these things ,.... The former words being inserted in a parenthesis, these are an answer to the question in Romans 8:35 , "what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation?" &c.; "nay", it shall not, nor any of the other things mentioned: "in all these things"; afflictions, distresses, persecutions, famine, nakedness, sword, or any other thing of the same kind: we are more than conquerors ; not only over sin and Satan, but the world, the reproaches,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:38

For I am persuaded ,.... These words with the following, express the strong persuasion, and full assurance of faith the apostle had, that nothing whatever could separate him and the rest of God's people, from his love towards them in Christ Jesus. This persuasion not only regards himself, but others; and is not conjectural, but certain; and which did not arise from any special and extraordinary revelation, but is founded upon the nature of the love of God itself, the security of it in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:39

Nor height, nor depth ,.... Neither heaven, earth, nor hell, nor any of the inhabitants of either, or anything in either; no high or low place, to be cast down from the one, or into the other; nor the height of honour and prosperity, or the depth of meanness and adversity; nor the height of power, or depth of policy in men or devils; nor any other creature . This takes in the whole compass of created beings in heaven, earth, and sea; and most strongly expresses the inseparableness of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:33

This and the two following verses contain a string of questions, most appropriately introduced and most powerfully urged, tending to show the safety of the state of those who have believed the Gospel of the grace of God. I shall lay these verses down as they are pointed by the best Greek critics: - "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? - God who justifieth? Who is he that condemneth? - Christ who died? or, rather, who is risen again? He, who is at the right hand of God? He,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 8:31-39

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 8:31-39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 8:39

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:33

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