The Anchor for Your Soul

²⁶Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For bwe do not know what to pray for as we ought, but cthe Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. ²⁷And dhe who searches hearts knows what is ethe mind of the Spirit, because7 the Spirit fintercedes for the saints gaccording to the will of God. ²⁸And we know that for those who love God all things work together hfor good,8 for ithose who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he jforeknew he also kpredestined lto be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be mthe firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also njustified, and those whom he justified he also oglorified.

God's Everlasting Love

³¹What then shall we say to these things? pIf God is for us, who can be9 against us? ³²qHe who did not spare his own Son but rgave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? ³³Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? sIt is God who justifies. ³⁴tWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—uwho is at the right hand of God, vwho indeed is interceding for us.10 ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶As it is written,

w“For your sake xwe are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than yconquerors through zhim who loved us. ³⁸For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.