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ROMANOS 8:31-35

If God Be For Us

Romans 8:31-35 is St. Paul's triumphant declaration of the invincibility of God's love: 'If God be for us, who is against us?' The rhetorical questions expect the answer 'No one!' This passage concludes the doctrinal section of Romans with the assurance that nothing in creation can separate the elect from Christ's love.

LATINE
Quid ergo dicemus ad haec?
Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
Qui etiam proprio Filio suo non pepercit,
sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum,
quomodo non etiam cum illo omnia nobis donabit?
Quis accusabit adversus electos Dei?
Deus qui iustificat.
Quis est qui condemnet?
Christus Iesus qui mortuus est,
immo qui resurrexit,
qui est ad dexteram Dei,
qui etiam interpellat pro nobis.
Quis nos separabit a caritate Christi?
Tribulatio? an angustia? an fames?
an nuditas? an periculum? an persecutio? an gladius?
ENGLISH
What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who is against us?
He that spared not even his own Son,
but delivered him up for us all,
how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?
Who shall accuse against the elect of God?
God that justifieth.
Who is he that shall condemn?
Christ Jesus that died,
yea that is risen also again;
who is at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us.
Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine?
or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword?
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims / Vulgata
USUS
Times of persecution, spiritual combat
CONTEXT
This passage concludes the doctrinal section of Romans. The rhetorical questions expect the answer 'No one!' – nothing in creation can overcome God's saving love.