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No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
  • BSB No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who 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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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 are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
  • 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
  • Rev 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
  • Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
  • Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
  • 2 Cor 12:9He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, 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, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
  • Rev 17:14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
  • 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
  • Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
  • 2 Chr 20:25–27When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
  • 1 Cor 15:54But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
  • Rev 7:9–10After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
  • 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
  • Isa 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
  • 1 Jn 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • Rev 3:9Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • Rev 11:7–12When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
  • 2 Cor 12:19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
  • Eph 5:25–27Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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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.

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