ponderings.

Romans 8:24-39

24 For we are saved by ^ahope: but hope that is ^bseen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

 26 Likewise the Spirit also ^ahelpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should ^bpray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh ^cintercession for us with ^dgroanings which cannot be uttered.

 27 And he that ^asearcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh ^bintercession for the saints according to the will of God.

 28 And we know that all things work together for ^agood to them that love God, to them who are the called according to hispurpose.

 29 ^aFor whom he did ^bforeknow, he also ^cdid predestinate ^dto beconformed to the ^eimage of his Son, that he might be the^ffirstborn among many brethren.

 30 Moreover whom he ^adid predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, whocan ^abe against us?

 32 He that spared not his own ^aSon, but ^bdelivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us ^call things?

 33 Who shall ^alay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It isGod that justifieth.

 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh ^aintercession for us.

 35 Who shall separate us from the ^alove of Christ? shall^btribulation, or distress, or ^cpersecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are ^akilled all the day long; we are accounted as ^bsheep for the slaughter.

 37 Nay, in all these things we are ^amore than ^bconquerorsthrough him that loved us.

 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to^aseparate us from the ^blove of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.