Romans 8:22–39

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor, ²³and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.^{* 24}For in^v hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

²⁶Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes^w with groanings too deep for words.^{* 27}And God,^x who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit^y intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.^*

²⁸We know that all things work together^z for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.^{* 29}For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.^{a* 30}And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.^*

God’s Love in Christ Jesus

³¹What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?^{* 32}He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? ³³Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.^{* 34}Who is to condemn? It is Christ^b who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.^{* 35}Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all day long;

we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”^*

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.^{* 38}For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,^{* 39}nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.