Ordinary Time

Cruz-Mariaca

Daily Bread, reading 26 of 30

Romans 8:31-39

1 minute

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us? He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things? Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God that justifieth. Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died, yea that is risen also again; who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword? (As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, 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 8:31-39 Douay-Rheims

A thought

Paul builds to a list of things that cannot separate us from God's love: death, life, powers, things present and to come. It is one long sentence that ends in confidence.

A question

What is on your own list of things that feel stronger than love?

Read all of Romans 8

That is it for today.

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