Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 8:37
We more than conquer — We are not only no losers, but abundant gainers, by all these trials. This period seems to describe the full assurance of hope.
We more than conquer — We are not only no losers, but abundant gainers, by all these trials. This period seems to describe the full assurance of hope.
Verse 37. _NAY_] as the prophet adds in the same place, _all_ _this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee, nor dealt_ _falsely in thy covenant_, Romans 8:17; Romans 8:18, so all these thing...
NAY - But. Notwithstanding our severe pressures and trials. IN ALL THESE THINGS - In the very midst of them; while we are enduring them we are able to triumph; compare 1 Corinthians 15:57. WE ARE MOR...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE CHRISTIAN ASSURANCE. Romans 8:28. One thing we do know, that all goes well for those that love God including their worst sufferings (Romans 8:18; cf. Romans 5:3)....
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
MORE THAN CONQUERORS. Greek. _hupernikao;_ only here....
_Nay_ Lit., and perhaps better, BUT: q. d., "Such are indeed our sufferings; _but_in all these things &c." _we are more than conquerors_ "Wir überwinden weit;" Luther. If this glorious utterance (a si...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
31–39. The confidence inspired by this evidence of the love of Christ and GOD. The love which is the ground of the whole relation of GOD to man is shown in its intensity (31), and its power as reveale...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂�. Ἡ. Romans 8:35, n. aorist....
ΎΠΕΡΝΙΚΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΕΡΝΙΚΆΩ (G5245) покорять, одерживать победу. Предложное сочетание усиливает гл.: "мы одерживаем самую славную из побед" "превосходная победа" (BAGD; Fitzmyer, 534)....
WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS— For we not only bear, but _glory in tribulations,_ Romans 5:3. We are in deaths often, but still _delivered from death,_ 2 Corinthians 1:10. And _as the sufferings of Chri...
WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? &C.— To answer the argument hence urged, to shew that man cannot fall from grace, because if once they truly loved God, they cannot cease to do so in pri...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:31-39. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also w...
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS, [ hupernikoomen (G5245 )] THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US - not (as H...
__ God's Sovereignty-Individual 37 God's love never lets us go. The trials and tribulations we endure are not tokens of His displeasure. They are all tempered by His loving heart. A sense of His lov...
8:37 loved (a-14) Aorist. See Note to ch. 5.6....
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(31-39) Now follows the sublime and triumphant conclusion from the foregoing — expressed with passionate energy and with the most intense consciousness of the reality of a Christian belief in penetrat...
NAY. — _Yet,_ or _But._ So far from being vanquished, we are conquerors: when we are weak then are we strong....
CHAPTER 19 THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN THE SAINTS: THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL WELFARE IN THE LOVE OF Romans 8:26 IN the last paragraph the music of this glorious didactic prophecy passed, in some solemn...
Conclusion of the argument: the Apostle glories in the assurance of God's eternal and unchangeable love in Jesus Christ. οἴδαμεν δὲ = further, we know: in a sense this is one ground more for believing...
ὑπερνικῶμεν : a word probably coined by Paul, who loves compounds with ὑπέρ. The Vulg. gives _superamus_, with which Lipsius agrees (_obsiegen_, like _over-power_): but Cyprian _supervincimus_. Later...
NO SEPARATION FROM CHRIST'S LOVE Romans 8:31 This is the close of the Apostle's argument. He has shown that believers are dear to God because they are in Christ; that their every need has been antici...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
(r) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (r) We not only overcome so great and many miseries and calamities, but are also more than conquerors in all of the...
TWENTIETH PASSAGE (8:31-39). HYMN OF THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. This passage is a conclusion. The _then_ of Romans 8:31 indicates this. This conclusion is directly connected with the previous teachin...
Paul expresses his certainty that none of these efforts will avail to tear the believer from the encircling arms of Christ's love. There is in this love a power which will overcome all the weaknesses...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
“ _Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day l...
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (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...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_‘MORE THAN CONQUERORS’_ ‘We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.’ Romans 8:37 Here is a glorious vision indeed. St. Paul is so confident that he speaks of the future as if it were p...
37._We do more than conquer_, _etc._; that is, we always struggle and emerge. I have retained the word used by Paul, (276) though not commonly used by the Latins. It indeed sometimes happens that the...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS,.... The former words being inserted in a parenthesis, these are an answer to the question in Romans 8:35, "what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation?...
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Ver. 37. _We are more than conquerors_] What is that? Triumphers, 2 Corinthians 2:14. We do over overcome; because thro...
_Who shall separate us_ By saying τις, _who_, the apostle personifies the things he is going to mention, namely, affliction, &c.; _from the love of Christ_ Toward us? By this, some understand the love...
MORE THAN CONQUERORS; over all our trials; they shall not only fail to separate us from the love of Christ, or to diminish our love to him, or to do us any real harm, but they shall do us great good;...
NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US....
The assurance of God's unchangeable love in Christ Jesus:...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
In all of the things listed above:"WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS" All a conqueror can do is take over. Through Christ we control, own, judge, create, destroy, manage, tear down, re-build WHY? Not on...
NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US. "IN ALL THESE THINGS" -or despite of all these trials. 'Yet amidst all these things'(TCNT) "MORE THAN CONQUERORS" -5245...
32-39 All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest fol...
NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS; i.e. in _tribulation, distress, _ & c. as before, ROMANS 8:35. WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS; or, we overcome. We conquer when we ourselves are conquered; we conquer by those w...
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. [But though we be in tribulation, and be slain like sheep, yet in all these things we not only gain the conquest, so tha...
Origen Against Celsus Book I should feel elated because afflictions, or those other causes enumerated by Paul, do not separate us (from Christ); but not that Paul and the other apostles, and any othe...
Romans 8:37 Yet G235 in G1722 all G3956 things G5125 conquerors G5245 (G5719) through G1223 loved G25 ...
THE BELIEVER CAN REST IN TOTAL ASSURANCE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSES OUT FROM BEGINNING TO END. HE CAN THEREFORE REST IN THE CERTAINTY OF HIS LOVE WHATEVER BEFALLS (8:28-39). Now...
‘No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.' Indeed rather than being defeated by such circumstances as those described above, Christians rise above them. ‘In all th...
Romans 8:28-39. The _third_ ground of encouragement; the Christian has nothing to fear, for nothing can separate him from the love of God (see analysis above)....
2. GROUNDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ATTESTING THE BELIEVER'S SECURITY. The life in the Spirit involves fellowship with Christ in suffering and glory (Romans 8:17). The sufferings are present, while the glory...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
Romans 8:37. NAY; literally, ‘but.' Some connect this with Romans 8:35, making Romans 8:36 parenthetical, but this is not necessary, for the course of thought is unbroken, and this verse is antithetic...
NAY (αλλα). On the contrary, we shall not be separated.WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS (υπερνικωμεν). Late and rare compound. Here only in N.T. "We gain a surpassing victory through the one who loved...
Romans 8:31 There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith. I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits...
Romans 8:37 The Gain of the Christian Conquerors. I. Its nature. "We are more than conquerors." As I have said, the phrase implies that in the conquest itself is something greater than mere conquest...
Romans 8:28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Oh, how many these are! Want of memory, want of faith, want of earnestness, ignorance, pride, deadness, coldness of heart, these are s...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, our inabilities: the Spirit of God comes in to be a helper to the children of God. Romans 8:26....
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
Romans 8:23. _And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._...
Romans 8:19. _For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ The whole creation is in a waiting posture, waiting for the glory yet to be revealed. Rom...
Romans 8:18. _For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us._ Paul made «the sufferings of this present time» into a...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
NO, IN ALL THESE THINGS. Suffering will not cause us to abandon Christ! WE HAVE COMPLETE victory! The ordeal of suffering not only _does not cut us off from_ Christ's love, but it actually gives us mo...
MORE THAN CONQUERORS We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:37. You boys and girls have heard a great deal about battles. You have been told stories of battles lost, and of...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:18 Paul began this major section of the letter (Romans 5:1) by emphasizing the final hope of believers (Rom
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:36. WE ARE BEING KILLED.—To express the intensely present. Romans 8:37.—Are triumphantly victorious. Have superabundant strength. Romans 8:38. FOR I AM PERSUADED, ETC.—To b...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Corinthians 15:57; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:19;...
We are more than conquerors [υ π ε ρ ν ι κ ω μ ε ν]. A victory which is more than a victory. "A holy arrogance of victory in the might of Christ" (Meyer)....
SOME THINGS WE KNOW Romans 8:26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the realms of the humanly unknowable and unknown, the Word of God is sure and steadfast. We can say, "I know this," or, "I know that," when God...
As if the apostle had said, "We are so far from being separated from Christ, by the afflictions and persecutions which we undergo, that we are conquerors by our patience, nay, more than conquerors: we...