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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
  • KJV Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
  • NKJV Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
  • NASB But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
  • NLT No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

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Quick answer

In all these sufferings we are not merely survivors but more than conquerors through Christ who loved us. His love turns trials into occasions of overwhelming victory.

Overview

Paul answers his own question from v. 35: these hardships cannot defeat believers; rather, in them we are overwhelmingly victorious. The victory is not by our strength but through him who loved us, that is, through Christ and his sacrificial love. Suffering, far from separating us from God, becomes the arena where his sustaining grace makes us triumphant.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • 1 Cor 15:57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
  • 1 Jn 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
  • 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
  • Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
  • Rev 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
  • Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
  • 2 Cor 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
  • John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
  • Rev 17:14They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
  • 1 Jn 4:19We love because He first loved us.
  • Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
  • Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
  • 2 Chr 20:25–27Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
  • 1 Cor 15:54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
  • Rev 7:9–10After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
  • 2 Th 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
  • Isa 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  • 1 Jn 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • Rev 3:9Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
  • Rev 11:7–12When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
  • 2 Cor 12:19Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.
  • Eph 5:25–27Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

How Romans 8:37 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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