Romans: God’s Everlasting Love
If you’ve ever doubted your salvation or if God still loves you after you’ve sinned again or fallen away yet again, this week’s study is for you. But it is also a good reminder for all Christians that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Read Romans 8:31-39 and journal through the following questions this week:
What are the four questions Paul asks here? (Put them in your own words)
Verse 31b
Verse 32
Verse 33
Verse 34
What are the answers to each of the questions?
What causes you to feel that you are too guilty to be forgiven? How do verses 33-34 give you confidence?
Why can’t we be condemned? (v. 34). See also Romans 8:1, 1 John 3:20 and John 3:17
Romans 8:36 quotes Psalm 44:22. Read Psalm 44 for context - what does this verse mean? See also 2 Timothy 3:12, John 15:18, Matthew 5:10, and 1 Peter 4:12-14.
How are we “more than conquerors”? (v. 37)
What does it mean to be persuaded of something? The same word is also used in Romans 14:14, Romans 15:14, 2 Timothy 1:5, 2 Timothy 1:12 and Hebrews 6:9.
What cannot separate us from the love of God? Why not? (v. 38-39)
What are “principalities” in this context? See Ephesians 3:10, Colossians 1:16 and Colossians 2:15.
How do such powers might seem to tend to “separate” us from the love of God? See Ephesians 6:12
This passage is meant to be a closing passage for the previous eight chapters of this epistle. Look at your notes from prior weeks and chapters and sum up what you’ve learned this far.
Reflect & Respond
What does this passage teach me about God?
How does this change the way I live?
Scripture to Memorize
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” -Romans 8:38-39
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Yelena is the founder and editor in chief Tirzah. Yelena works as an attorney in tax and in her spare time, she is working on her first book for unmarried twenty-something women in extended waiting seasons and running Tirzah. She has a passion for pointing young women to Christ, and enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with her family. Yelena lives in Indiana with her husband, Daniel.