Romans 8:35 (ASV)

Passage

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nearby Context

Romans 8:33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God`s elect? It is God that justifieth;

Romans 8:34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "separate", "love", "christ", "tribulation", "anguish", and "persecution". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "separate", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 34's "who is he that condemneth It is..." into verse 36's "Even as it is written For thy...", so "shall" and "separate" belong inside that flow. In Romans context, the local focus is righteousness by faith, union with Christ, life in the Spirit, and God's covenant faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "shall" and "separate" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.