Romans 8:33 (KJV)

Passage

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Nearby Context

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Romans 8:34 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 intercession for us.

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "charge", "elect", and "justifieth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "charge", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 32's "He that spared not his own Son..." into verse 34's "Who is he that condemneth It is...", so "shall" and "charge" 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 "charge" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.