What does Romans 8:31 mean?

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31, King James Version

Eden is the Mercy Bible. Free to read, on your phone.

The verse in its chapter

Romans 8:29-33

  1. 29 For 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.
  2. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
  3. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
  4. 32 He 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?
  5. 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Study note

Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

8:31 such wonderful things: Paul is referring to everything he has taught in chs 5–8 about the blessings and sense of assurance that believers receive from their relationship with God.

Cross references

Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.

About the book of Romans

Author
Paul (Romans 1:1)
When
c. AD 57, from Corinth
Period
Igreja primitiva, c. 30 a 70 d.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

In the Mercy Bible Atlas (in Portuguese)

More verses from Romans