Romans 8:31,33
Romans 8:31-39 The Message (MSG)
So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Romans 8:31-39 The Message (MSG)
So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Romans 8:31 King James Version (KJV)
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:33 King James Version (KJV)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans 8:31 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Romans 8:33 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies
Romans 8:31 New Century Version (NCV)
So what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can defeat us.
Romans 8:33 New Century Version (NCV)
Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right.
Romans 8:31 American Standard Version (ASV)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Romans 8:33 American Standard Version (ASV)
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth
Romans 8:31 New International Version (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:33 New International Version (NIV)
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:31 New King James Version (NKJV)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:33 New King James Version (NKJV)
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:31 Amplified Bible (AMP)
What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be [successful] against us? [Ps 118:6]
Romans 8:33 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us [declaring us blameless and putting us in a right relationship with Himself].
Romans 8:31 New Living Translation (NLT)
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Romans 8:33 New Living Translation (NLT)
Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself.
Romans 8:31 The Passion Translation (TPT)
So, what does all this mean? If God has determined to stand with us, tell me, who then could ever stand against us?
Romans 8:33 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them—“Not guilty!”
Romans 8:31 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
