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Romans 8:27-37

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27 He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.
27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28 That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
29 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose?
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
33 And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
34 Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us - who was raised to life for us! - is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.
34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
35 Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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