What does Romans 8:37 mean?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:37, King James Version

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Romans 8:35-39

  1. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  2. 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  3. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
  4. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
  5. 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Study note

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us--not, "We are so far from being conquered by them, that they do us much good" [HODGE]; for though this be true, the word means simply, "We are pre-eminently conquerors." See on Rom 5:20. And so far are they from "separating us from Christ's love," that it is just "through Him that loved us" that we are victorious over them.

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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.

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