Romans 8:18-39

18For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

19For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

20For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope

21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

22For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

23Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

24For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

28And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

29because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

30And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

32Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

34Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.