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35.
Who
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separate us from the
love of God? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
36. (As it is written, for thy sake we
are killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the
slaughter.)
37.
Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors, through
Him that loved us.
38. For I
am
persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor to come,
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.
So, if God is for us, and Jesus is our
advocate at the right hand of God, and the Holy
Spirit intercedes for us with groanings that
cannot be uttered, who shall separate us from
the love that so guards us. Shall we let the
things brought upon us discourage, dishearten,
and turn us back, and cause us to forfeit these
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