32aHe who did not spare His own Son, but bdelivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? aItis God who justifies.
34aWho is he who condemns? Itis Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, bwho is even at the right hand of God, cwho also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: a“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37aYet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Shall condemn (katakrinwn). Can be either present active participle (condemns) or the future (shall condemn). It is a bold accuser who can face God with false charges or with true ones for that matter for we have an "Advocate" at God's Court (I John 2:1), "who is at the right hand of God" (ov estin en deciai tou qeou) "who also maketh intercession for us" (ov kai entugxanei uper hmwn). Our Advocate paid the debt for our sins with his blood. The score is settled. We are free (Romans 8:1).
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