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Romans 8:37

Romans 8:37:

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (NIV)

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. (NASB)

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (KJV)

By means of hyphora Paul responds to the questions posed in Rom 8:35: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”

Paul’s response: “No, trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or sword shall not separate us from the love of Christ because in these things we are conquerors.” This is amplified through comparison of majority such that “We are more than conquerors.”

It is also worth noting that the means by which “We are more than conquerors over all adversity” is namely Jesus Christ, i.e., “Him who loved us.”

Here Paul returns in a sense to the conclusion of Rom 8:1: “To those who are in Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation.” However, Paul has made it clear that we will “face death all day long” (Psalm 44:22, Rom 8:36), which refers to our present sufferings. This is to prove the argument of Rom 8:18: “All our sufferings in the present life are unequal to, less than, and unworthy of the glory to be revealed in us, or that inheritance which has been established in Christ Jesus; therefore, we should gladly suffer anything with Christ that we may be also glorified along with him, and in him become heirs of God.”

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