Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor 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.
The context is that no matter what the saints have to go through, persecution and suffering, we as Christians are called to endure for the faith of Christ Jesus. The statement is that none of it or anything else can separate us from God’s love or Christ Jesus. In this, we have more than conquered the world and the powers of darkness: once saved, always saved.
Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
2 Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
If your faith is weak, read and diligently study God’s word. The more you know God the more trust can be put in Him.
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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