Romains 8:37

37 Au contraire, dans toutes ces choses nous sommes plus que vainqueurs, par celui qui nous a aimés.

Romains 8:37 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 8:37

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?" &c. "nay", it shall not, nor any of the other things mentioned: "in all these things"; afflictions, distresses, persecutions, famine, nakedness, sword, or any other thing of the same kind:

we are more than conquerors;
not only over sin and Satan, but the world, the reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions of it; which they cheerfully and courageously undergo, insomuch that they are not only conquerors, but "more than conquerors": they have above overcome, they have exceedingly the better of it; for they not only patiently bear afflictions and persecutions, but they glory in them; their experience, faith, and joy, are often increased by them; they have sometime solicited, and even wearied their persecutors; they have got the victory with ease, over Satan and his hellish emissaries, by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony: but this is not owing to themselves, or through their own strength, but

through him that loved us;
meaning either God the Father, whose love is mentioned in the following verses, or rather the Lord Jesus Christ; and so some copies express it, "through Christ that loved us": "through him", who has got the victory over all his and his people's enemies, and makes them sharers in his conquests; "through him", who is able to help them, and has strength sufficient to carry them through, and brings them off more than conquerors; who has loved them, still loves them, and whose love engages his power to stand by them and protect them against all their enemies.

Romains 8:37 In-Context

35 Qui nous séparera de l'amour de Christ? Sera-ce l'affliction, ou l'angoisse, ou la persécution, ou la faim, ou la nudité, ou le péril, ou l'épée?

36 Selon qu'il est écrit: Nous sommes livrés à la mort tous les jours à cause de toi, et nous sommes regardés comme des brebis destinées à la tuerie.

37 Au contraire, dans toutes ces choses nous sommes plus que vainqueurs, par celui qui nous a aimés.

38 Car je suis assuré que ni la mort, ni la vie, ni les anges, ni les principautés, ni les puissances, ni les choses présentes, ni les choses à venir,

39 Ni la hauteur, ni la profondeur, ni aucune autre créature, ne pourra nous séparer de l'amour de Dieu manifesté en Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.