Where is it in the Bible?
Romans 8:31
31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
In other translations
- ESV
- 31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- NLT
- 31What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
- CSB
- 31What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
- KJV
- 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
The surrounding passage
Romans 8:29–33, King James Version
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Context
The start of the triumphant close of Romans 8 (8:31–39). Having laid out God's purpose from foreknowledge to glorification (8:28–30), Paul asks a series of questions: who can bring a charge against God's chosen, and who can separate them from Christ's love? The chapter ends by declaring that nothing in all creation can.
About the book of Romans
Paul’s fullest statement of the gospel: righteousness by faith.
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