romans-8:31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:28-39

Romans 8:28-Malachi : . The Christian Assurance. Romans 8:28 . One thing “ we do know, that all goes well for those that love God”— including their worst sufferings ( Romans 8:18; cf. Romans 5:3-Deuteronomy :). Romans 8:29 f. This assurance rests on God’ s manifest purpose toward them— a “ purpose” disclosed in five successive steps: “ foreknowledge, pre-ordination, call, justification, glorification.” The foreknowledge covers everything about the persons concerned; God never acts by guess (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:31

What shall we then say to these things? Some refer this question to what is said in the verses immediately preceding: others, to what he had said, Romans 8:28; and others go higher, and refer it to all that he said before. Some by these things understand afflictions and sufferings more especially; What shall we say to these, or what need we be disheartened by these? For if God, &c. If God be for us; i.e. seeing God is for us; it is a note of certainty, not of ambiguity; see Romans 8:9. He... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 8:29-31

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 8:29.—Foreknowledge communicates the strength of grace to those to whom it refers.Romans 8:30. Called.—The cause of it God’s love, the act of calling; the effect, bestowal of blessings.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 8:29-31The unseen and the seen.—The believer who has fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before him has strong consolation. St. Paul looks both before and behind: he looks behind to a past eternity, and before to a coming eternity, if to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:31-39

Romans 8:31-39 There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith. I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits and justifies the sinner. II. The adversary may accuse; condemn, he dare not. For Jesus, the Judge, is in His own person a threefold, fourfold answer to every charge against His people. III. The Apostle flings down his glove to the forces of the world. What is his challenge but an echo to the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-39

Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was a Pharisee he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it.So he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:1-39

The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot extricate himself by any unavailing efforts of legal obedience that God has done for us by Jesus Christ what we could not do for ourselves that this liberation is obtained by union with Christ, which exempts us from condemnation and that those who are thus united to him, walk not after the flesh,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 8:31

Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these things?If God be for us, who can be against us? If God be for us none can be effectually against usFirst, here’s the supposition “If God be for us.” This “if” is not an if of doubting or ambiguity, but rather of certainty and assurance. That God is, indeed, for all true believers, cannot be denied (Psalms 46:7; Psalms 124:1; Psalms 118:6-7). There are two manner of ways especially wherein God may be said to be for His servants: First, by way of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 8:31

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Ver. 31. What shall we say then? ] q.d. Predestination, vocation, justification, glorification? What things be these? We cannot tell what to say to these things, so much we are amazed at the greatness of God’s love in them. A brave conclusion of the whole disputation concerning justification by faith alone. If God be for us, &c. ] Maximilian the emperor so admired this sentence, that he caused it to be... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 8:31

What: Romans 4:1 If: Genesis 15:1, Numbers 14:9, Deuteronomy 33:29, Joshua 10:42, 1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 17:45-2 Corinthians :, Psalms 27:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 46:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Psalms 56:4, Psalms 56:11, Psalms 84:11, Psalms 84:12, Psalms 118:6, Isaiah 50:7-1 Samuel :, Isaiah 54:17, Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 20:11, John 10:28-Amos :, 1 John 4:4 Reciprocal: Genesis 19:19 - lest some Genesis 21:22 - God Genesis 26:28 - was with Genesis 28:15 - I am Genesis 33:11 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 8:31

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?What shall we say then to these things — Related in the third, fifth, and eighth chapters? As if he had said, We cannot go, think, or wish anything farther.If God be for us — Here follow four periods, one general and three particular. Each begins with glorying in the grace of God, which is followed by a question suitable to it, challenging all opponents to all which, "I am persuaded," etc., is a general answer. The... read more