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Romans 8 Bible study: If God is for us

Romans 8 says the Spirit "makes intercession for us" (8:26), and a few verses later says of Christ, "who also makes intercession for us" (8:34). The chapter that begins with "no condemnation" (8:1) ends with nothing that "will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (8:39).

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“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1 · World English Bible

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What's really going on

No condemnation

In the text

The chapter opens, "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." (8:1) (tap condemnation). It goes on, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death." (8:2). Then it says what the law couldn't do and what God did: "For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh," (8:3) "that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." (8:4). These notes give the verses as they stand, explain them only by their own words, and give no name to what they teach.

Where the Old Testament leads here

Nothing will separate us

In the text

Psalms 44:22leads toRomans 8:37-39

The psalm says, "Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter" (Psalm 44:22). Paul (Romans 1:1) asks, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (Romans 8:35), and quotes the psalm's words: "Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”" (Romans 8:36). Romans has no Yes, has "We were accounted" where the psalm has "We are regarded", and doesn't name the psalm. Then: "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us" (Romans 8:37), and nothing "will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:39). Paul applies the psalm's words to "us" (Romans 8:35), not to Jesus; Romans doesn't say the psalm speaks of Jesus. It is Paul's argument that goes on from the psalm's words to the love of God in Christ Jesus.

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The Greek word behind it

πνεῦμαpneumasay PNYOO-mah

Strong's: "a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit". This chapter has the word 22 times, of the letter's 35 (counted in RP2018). "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God." (8:14). In 8:15 and again in 8:16 the Greek has it twice, and the WEB gives it once as spirit and once as Spirit: "the spirit of bondage" and "the Spirit of adoption" (8:15), "The Spirit himself" and "our spirit" (8:16). In 8:9 the Greek has it three times, among them "the Spirit of God" and "the Spirit of Christ". The capitals are the WEB's, and these notes build nothing on them. The letter has the word again in "my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit" (9:1). Favor's Mark 1, Matthew 3, Luke 3, John 3 and Acts 2 study it too.

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Romans 8 Bible study questions

  1. 1"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus" (8:1). What would change in your week if you heard these words first thing each morning?
  2. 2"for we don’t know how to pray as we ought" (8:26). When have you not known how to pray?
  3. 3"If God is for us, who can be against us?" (8:31). Where do you most need to hear these words this week?

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