Romans 8:37-39

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:31-39

(31-39) Now follows the sublime and triumphant conclusion from the foregoing—expressed with passionate energy and with the most intense consciousness of the reality of a Christian belief in penetrating and sustaining the mind in all outward trials, however severe.Erasmus remarks on this, that “Cicero never said anything grander.” It is needless to add that, setting aside other considerations, Cicero was not for a moment comparable in spiritual intensity, and therefore in true eloquence, to St.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:37

(37) Nay.—Yet, or But. So far from being vanquished, we are conquerors: when we are weak then are we strong. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:38

(38) Neither death, nor life . . .—The enumeration that follows is intended to include (poetically rather than logically) every possible category of being, especially those unseen powers of evil against which the warfare of the Christian was more particularly directed.Nor principalities.—Comp. Ephesians 6:12, “We wrestle . . . against principalities, against powers;” terms belonging to the Jewish enumeration of angels. The critical evidence is however absolutely decisive in separating “powers”... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:39

(39) Nor height, nor depth.—No remoteness in space. (Comp. Psalms 139:8 et seq. “If I ascend up into heaven,” &c.)Any other creature.—Any other created thing.The love of God.—It is to be observed that for the shorter phrase, “the love of Christ,” the Apostle now substitutes the fuller but, as it would seem, equivalent phrase, “the love of God in Christ.” read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 8:1-39

In Christ Romans 8:1 The words 'In Christ' have been very happily termed 'Paul's Monogram'. They were first used in the text as a definite description of the child of God, and it is interesting to see how Paul gradually worked up to it. He used different prepositions concerning the Lord Jesus in the Epistle to the Romans until he wrote the wonderful word 'in'. The two words 'In Christ' gave Paul a view which never passed away, and he began only to think of himself and of others, the loved ones... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 8:26-39

Chapter 19THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN THE SAINTS: THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL WELFARE IN THE LOVE OFRomans 8:26-39IN the last paragraph the music of this glorious didactic prophecy passed, in some solemn phrases, into the minor mood. "If we share His sufferings"; "The sufferings of this present season"; "We groan within ourselves"; "In the sense of our hope we were saved." All is well. The deep harmony of the Christian’s full experience, if it is full downwards as well as upwards, demands sometimes... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 8:1-39

CHAPTER 8 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1-4 .) 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5-8 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9-11 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. (Romans 8:12-17 .) 5. The Time of Travail and Groaning; the Future Redemption. (Romans 8:18-25 .) 6. The intercession of the Spirit. (Romans 8:26-27 .) 7. The Saints Calling; the Challenge and the Assurance. (Romans 8:28-39 .) Romans 8:1-4 . We have reached the mountain-top of this great Epistle. What man... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 8:37

8:37 {r} Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.(r) We not only overcome so great and many miseries and calamities, but are also more than conquerors in all of them. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:1-39

Deliverance Simply by God's Truth We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly not so. Experience does not, and cannot produce liberty. Liberty, on the other hand, when known, is in itself an experience. But the means of finding liberty experimentally, rests altogether upon the testimony of God. What can be more striking than that here we have but a few pointed, absolute... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 8:1-39

The Spirit of Christ Rom 8:9 It must, then, be of infinite consequence to find out as nearly and completely as we may what that Spirit is. The sentence is marked by a striking tone of finality. It is a sentence complete in itself; it would seem to hold an entire Bible. It has upon the reader the effect of having seen the standard by which all life and thought must be judged not a standard in the sense of one of many, but the standard, the only standard; if a man fail there it is of no... read more

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