is “for us” is extremely important. The only rightful judge on that day is God; so if God is for us, no one could oppose us. Paul proclaims the good news of God’s faithfulness: nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. He considers and rejects a whole list of things that might seem more powerful than God’s love and calls on his hearers to trust the reality of God more than the illusions of the enemy. Grieb, The Story of Romans, 83. The questions that follow bring out
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