Romans 8:35 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Romans 8:33 Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies:

Romans 8:34 who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

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

Romans 8:36 According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "separate", "love", "christ", "tribulation", "distress", "persecution", and "famine". 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 condemns It is..." into verse 36's "According 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.