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Text -- Romans 8:37 (NET)

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8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay ( alla ). On the contrary, we shall not be separated.

Nay ( alla ).

On the contrary, we shall not be separated.

Robertson: Rom 8:37 - -- We are more than conquerors ( hupernikōmen ). Late and rare compound. Here only in N.T. "We gain a surpassing victory through the one who loved us....

We are more than conquerors ( hupernikōmen ).

Late and rare compound. Here only in N.T. "We gain a surpassing victory through the one who loved us."

Vincent: Rom 8:37 - -- We are more than conquerors ( ὑπερνικῶμεν ) A victory which is more than a victory. " A holy arrogance of victory in the might of ...

We are more than conquerors ( ὑπερνικῶμεν )

A victory which is more than a victory. " A holy arrogance of victory in the might of Christ" (Meyer).

Wesley: Rom 8:37 - -- We are not only no losers, but abundant gainers, by all these trials. This period seems to describe the full assurance of hope.

We are not only no losers, but abundant gainers, by all these trials. This period seems to describe the full assurance of hope.

JFB: Rom 8:37 - -- Not, "We are so far from being conquered by them, that they do us much good" [HODGE]; for though this be true, the word means simply, "We are pre-emin...

Not, "We are so far from being conquered by them, that they do us much good" [HODGE]; for though this be true, the word means simply, "We are pre-eminently conquerors." See on Rom 5:20. And so far are they from "separating us from Christ's love," that it is just "through Him that loved us" that we are victorious over them.

Clarke: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay - as the prophet adds in the same place, all this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee, nor dealt falsely in thy covenant, Rom 8:17, ...

Nay - as the prophet adds in the same place, all this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee, nor dealt falsely in thy covenant, Rom 8:17, Rom 8:18, so all these things may happen unto us; but in all these things we are more than conquerors; We abide faithful in the new covenant of our God; and He is faithful who has promised to support and make us more than conquerors; i.e. to give us a complete triumph over sin, and death, and hell, not leaving one enemy unsubdued.

Calvin: Rom 8:37 - -- 37.We do more than conquer, etc.; that is, we always struggle and emerge. I have retained the word used by Paul, 276 though not commonly used by the...

37.We do more than conquer, etc.; that is, we always struggle and emerge. I have retained the word used by Paul, 276 though not commonly used by the Latins. It indeed sometimes happens that the faithful seem to succumb and to lie forlorn; and thus the Lord not only tries, but also humbles them. This issue is however given to them, — that they obtain the victory.

That they might at the same time remember whence this invincible power proceeds, he again repeats what he had said before: for he not only teaches us that God, because he loves us, supports us by his hand; but he also confirms the same truth by mentioning the love of Christ. 277 And this one sentence sufficiently proves, that the Apostle speaks not here of the fervency of that love which we have towards God, but of the paternal kindness of God and of Christ towards us, the assurance of which, being thoroughly fixed in our hearts, will always draw us from the gates of hell into the light of life, and will sufficiently avail for our support.

TSK: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay : 2Ch 20:25-27; Isa 25:8; 1Co 15:54, 1Co 15:57; 2Co 2:14, 2Co 12:9, 2Co 12:19; 1Jo 4:4; 1Jo 5:4, 1Jo 5:5; Rev 7:9, Rev 7:10, Rev 11:7-12, Rev 12:1...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay - But. Notwithstanding our severe pressures and trials. In all these things - In the very midst of them; while we are enduring them w...

Nay - But. Notwithstanding our severe pressures and trials.

In all these things - In the very midst of them; while we are enduring them we are able to triumph; compare 1Co 15:57.

We are more than conquerors - We gain the victory. That is, they have not power to subdue us; to alienate our love and confidence; to produce apostasy. We are the victors, not they. Our faith is not destroyed; our love is not diminished; our hope is not blasted. But it is not simple victory; it is not mere life, and continuance of what we had before; it is more than simple triumph; it augments our faith, increases our strength, expands our love to Christ. The word used here is a strong, emphatic expression, such as the apostle Paul often employs (compare 2Co 4:17), and which is used with great force and appropriateness here.

Through him ... - Not by their own strength or power. It was by the might of the Saviour, and by his power pledged to them, and confirmed by the love evinced when he gave himself for them; compare Phi 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me."

Poole: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay, in all these things i.e. in tribulation, distress, & c. as before, Rom 8:35 . We are more than conquerors or, we overcome. We conquer when w...

Nay, in all these things i.e. in tribulation, distress, & c. as before, Rom 8:35 .

We are more than conquerors or, we overcome. We conquer when we ourselves are conquered; we conquer by those which are wont to conquer others; we beat our enemies with their own weapons. The meaning seems to be this: The devil aims, in all the sufferings of God’ s children, to draw them off from Christ, to make them murmur, despair, &c.; but in this he is defeated and disappointed, for God inspires his children with such a generous and noble spirit, that sufferings abate not their zeal and patience, but rather increase them. "We Christians laugh at your cruelty, and grow the more resolute," said one of Julian’ s nobles to him.

Through him that loved us: a short description of Christ, together with a reason of a Christian’ s success. The conquest he hath over sin, and over sufferings also, is not from himself, or his own strength, but from Christ, &c.: see Rom 7:24,25 1Co 15:57 2Co 2:14 2Ti 4:17 .

Gill: Rom 8:37 - -- Nay, in all these things,.... The former words being inserted in a parenthesis, these are an answer to the question in Rom 8:35, "what shall separate ...

Nay, in all these things,.... The former words being inserted in a parenthesis, these are an answer to the question in Rom 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.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rom 8:37 Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.

Geneva Bible: Rom 8:37 ( r ) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ( r ) We not only overcome so great and many miseries and calam...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Rom 8:1-39 - --1 They that are in Christ, are free from condemnation.5 What harm comes of the flesh;13 and what good of the Spirit.19 The glorious deliverance all th...

Maclaren: Rom 8:37 - --More Than Conquerors Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.'--Romans 8:37. IN order to understand and feel t...

MHCC: Rom 8:32-39 - --All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cro...

Matthew Henry: Rom 8:31-39 - -- The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. Having largely set ...

Barclay: Rom 8:31-39 - --This is one of the most lyrical passages Paul ever wrote. In Rom 8:32there is a wonderful allusion which would stand out to any Jew who knew his Old ...

Constable: Rom 6:1--8:39 - --IV. THE IMPARTATION OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS chs. 6--8 The apostle moved on from questions about why people need s...

Constable: Rom 8:1-39 - --C. The believer's relationship to God ch. 8 "Spener is reported to have said that if holy Scripture was ...

Constable: Rom 8:31-39 - --5. Our eternal security 8:31-39 The apostle developed the fact that God will not lose one whom He has foreknown in this climactic section, and he glor...

College: Rom 8:1-39 - --B. VICTORY OVER SIN COMES THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT (8:1-13) For many people Romans 8 is the high point of the Bible, especially because of its emphas...

McGarvey: Rom 8:37 - --Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us . [But though we be in tribulation, and be slain like sheep, yet in all...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans Spring of a.d. 57 By Way of Introduction Integrity of the Epistle The genuineness of the Epistle is so generally adm...

JFB: Romans (Book Introduction) THE GENUINENESS of the Epistle to the Romans has never been questioned. It has the unbroken testimony of all antiquity, up to CLEMENT OF ROME, the apo...

JFB: Romans (Outline) INTRODUCTION. (Rom. 1:1-17) THE JEW UNDER LIKE CONDEMNATION WITH THE GENTILE. (Rom. 2:1-29) JEWISH OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. (Rom 3:1-8) THAT THE JEW IS S...

TSK: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans is " a writing," says Dr. Macknight, " which, for sublimity and truth of sentiment, for brevity and strength of expression,...

TSK: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Rom 8:1, They that are in Christ, are free from condemnation; Rom 8:5, What harm comes of the flesh; Rom 8:13, and what good of the Spiri...

Poole: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 8

MHCC: Romans (Book Introduction) The scope or design of the apostle in writing to the Romans appears to have been, to answer the unbelieving, and to teach the believing Jew; to confir...

MHCC: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) (Rom 8:1-9) The freedom of believers from condemnation. (Rom 8:10-17) Their privileges as being the children of God. (Rom 8:18-25) Their hopeful pro...

Matthew Henry: Romans (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans If we may compare scripture with scripture, and take the opinion ...

Matthew Henry: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) The apostle, having fully explained the doctrine of justification, and pressed the necessity of sanctification, in this chapter applies himself to ...

Barclay: Romans (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) The Liberation Of Our Human Nature (Rom_8:1-4) The Two Principles Of Life (Rom_8:5-11) Entry Into The Family Of God (Rom_8:12-17) The Glorious Hop...

Constable: Romans (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical Background Throughout the history of the church, from postapos...

Constable: Romans (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-17 A. Salutation 1:1-7 1. The writer 1:1 ...

Constable: Romans Romans Bibliography Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament. 4 vols. New ed. Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1881. ...

Haydock: Romans (Book Introduction) THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE ROMANS. INTRODUCTION. After the Gospels, which contain the history of Christ, and the Acts of...

Gill: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS Though this epistle is in order placed the first of the epistles, yet it was not first written: there were several epistles ...

Gill: Romans 8 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS 8 As the former chapter shows that sanctified ones are not free from the being of sin in them, which is a ground of general ...

College: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION I. ROMANS: ITS INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE God's Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path (Ps 119:105), and no part of it shine...

College: Romans (Outline) VIII. OUTLINE PROLOGUE - 1:1-17 I. EPISTOLARY GREETING - 1:1-7 A. The Author Introduces Himself - 1:1 1. A Slave of Christ Jesus 2. Call...

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