Romans 8:37
in Romans 8No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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This verse in Romans 8
Commentary
17 notes on this verseHe conquers who does not yield to those who lead on by force, but he is more than conqueror who voluntarily invites sorrows for a demonstration of his endurance.
This site's exposition
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
on Romans 8:35-37
The seven trials named, from trouble to sword, met the Roman believers under Nero within a decade of this letter. Verse 36 quotes Psalm 44:22, and the victory of verse 37 is won inside these trials. More than conquerors renders hypernikao, to conquer overwhelmingly.
This site's exposition
more than conquerors
Chrysostom finds the wonder in the means. Believers conquer by the very things set against them, and Origen puts the strength in Him who loved them. Wesley reads the word as gain, for the trials leave them richer.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
A commentator
Origen of AlexandriaCOMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS · Written before 253.
proposed
And therefore "in all these things," he says, "we overcome," not by our own strength, but "through him who loved us." For while we hang upon his love, we do not receive the sensation of pain. For his love, by which he loved us, and which has caught up our affection to himself, makes us not feel the torture of the body and the pain. Therefore then "in all these things we overcome." Something of this sort the bride too says to the Word in the Song of Songs, that "I am wounded with love." In this manner, then, our soul also, having received from Christ the wound of love, even if it hand over the body to the sword, will not feel the wounds of the flesh in comparison with the wound of love.
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." For what is indeed wonderful is this, not that we are conquerors only, but that we are so by the very things meant as plots against us. And we are not merely conquerors, but we are "more than conquerors," that is, are so with ease, without toil and labor. For without undergoing the real things, by only setting our mind aright, we raise our trophies against our enemies. And with good reason. For it is God that striveth together with us. Do not then be doubtful, if though beaten we get the better of our beaters, if driven out we overcome our persecutors, if dying we put the living to flight. For when you take the power and also the love of God into account, there is nothing to prevent these wondrous and strange things from coming to pass, and that victory the most advantageous should shine upon us. For they did not merely conquer, but in a wondrous way, and so that one might learn that those who plotted against them had a war not against men, but against that invincible Might. See the Jews then with these among them, and at a loss quite, and saying, "What are we to do to these men?" For it is marvellous indeed, that though they had hold of them and had got them liable to their courts, and imprisoned them and beat them, they were yet at a loss and in perplexity, as they got overcome by the very things whereby they expected to conquer. And neither kings nor people, nor ranks of demons, nor the devil himself, had power to get the better of them, but were all overcome at a very great disadvantage, finding that all they planned against them became for them. […]
The Medieval Church2 voices
Then he answers the question, at "but in all these things." First, he gives the answer, saying, "but in all these things," namely, the evils mentioned above, "we overcome," as long as we preserve our love unsullied: "in his arduous contest she gave him the …
Having said before that we are being put to death, the apostle, lest anyone grow faint thinking in human terms, offers encouragement, and does not say: we conquer, but: "we more than conquer," that is, with ease, without toils and sweat, and moreover through the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
We more than conquer - We are not only no losers, but abundant gainers, by all these trials. This period seems to describe the full assurance of hope.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Nay, in all these things,....
The Nineteenth Century5 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers--whether good or bad.
THE distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the Apostle, "Christ loved me and gave Himself for me." Then love gives the countersign and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. "We love Him because He first loved us." "God is love," and the children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love—the love of Christ constrains them.
THE distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the Apostle, "Christ loved me and gave Himself for me." Then love gives the countersign and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. "We love Him because He first loved us." "God is love," and the children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love—the love of Christ constrains them. They believe in Jesus' love and then they reflect it. They rejoice that Divine love is set upon them. They feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit, which is given to them, and then by force of gratitude they love fervently the Savior with a pure heart. In those grand old ages, which are the heroic period of the Christian religion, this double mark was very clearly to be seen in all believers in Jesus. They were men who knew the love of Christ and rested upon it as a man leans upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. They did not speak of Christ's love as though it were a myth to be respected, a tradition to be reverenced—they viewed it as a blessed reality and they cast their whole confidence upon it, being persuaded that it would bear them up as upon eagles' wings, and carry them all their days. They were assured that it would be to them a foundation of rock against which the waves might beat, and the winds blow, but their soul's habitation would stand securely if founded upon it. The love which they felt towards the Lord Jesus was not a quiet emotion which they hid within themselves in the secret chamber of their souls, and which they only spoke of in their private assemblies when they met on the first day of the week and sung hymns in honor of Christ Jesus the Crucified.
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.
Modern Voices3 voices
But in the marriage of Christ and His bride, there is neither divorce nor separation.
It is the elect who enjoy the guarantee of this inseparable love.
The paradox was pictorially expressed in Christian art, in which saints were shown brandishing as weapons the very tools that had slain them. And because his martyrdom is thus a power to the martyr, modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable …
The words behind it
9 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἀλλ᾽ | all᾽ | But | G235 → | 635 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| τούτοις | toutois | these things | G3778 → | 1381 times |
| πᾶσιν | pasin | all | G3956 → | 1235 times |
| ὑπερνικῶμεν | hupernikomen | we more than conquer | G5245 → | |
| διὰ | dia | through | G1223 → | 664 times |
| τοῦ | tou | the [One who] | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἀγαπήσαντος | agapesantos | having loved | G25 → | 143 times |
| ἡμᾶς· | hemas | us; | G3165 → | 1936 times |
ἀλλ᾽But
all᾽G235 →635 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
τούτοιςthese things
toutoisG3778 →1381 times
πᾶσινall
pasinG3956 →1235 times
ὑπερνικῶμενwe more than conquer
hupernikomenG5245 →
διὰthrough
diaG1223 →664 times
τοῦthe [One who]
touG3588 →19766 times
ἀγαπήσαντοςhaving loved
agapesantosG25 →143 times
ἡμᾶς·us;
hemasG3165 →1936 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
it leads to
- Romans 8:31
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 1 John 5:4
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- 1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
- 1 Corinthians 2:12
We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
- Romans 8:10–11
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- Romans 8:31
Through
1 Corinthians 15:57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- 1 John 5:4–5
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- Proverbs 21:31
A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14
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About Romans
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Basil of Caesarea, HOMILIES 22; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 751: “More Than Conquerors” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); GK Chesterton, All Things Considered, The Modern Martyr (1908); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Romans 15; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament; Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS; R. C. Sproul, The Inseparable Love of God; Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Romans and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Romans.