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26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes[a] with groanings too deep for words.(A) 27 And God,[b] who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit[c] intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.(B)

28 We know that all things work together[d] for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.(C) 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.[e](D) 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.(E)

God’s Love in Christ Jesus

31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?(F) 32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.(G) 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ[f] who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.(H) 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
    we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”(I)

37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.(J) 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,(K) 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 8.26 Other ancient authorities add for us
  2. 8.27 Gk And the one
  3. 8.27 Gk he or it
  4. 8.28 Other ancient authorities read God makes all things work together or in all things God works
  5. 8.29 Gk among many brothers
  6. 8.34 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus