God's love for his people will always continue
31 So, because of all the things that God does for us, we can certainly say this: if God is working on our behalf, nobody can do anything against us. 32 God did not even keep his own Son safe. Instead, he gave his Son to die on behalf of all of us. So we know that he will also give us everything else that we need. 33 Nobody can accuse God's people in front of God. It is God himself who has accepted us as right with him. 34 So nobody can say that we are guilty. Christ Jesus himself died on our behalf. And God raised him to become alive again after his death. Now he sits at God's right side in heaven. Christ himself prays to God on our behalf.
8:34The right side is the most important place. This means that Jesus rules with the same power and authority as God himself.
35 Christ will always continue to love us. Nothing can stop that! We may have trouble. Things may make us sad or afraid. Cruel people may do bad things to us. We may have no food or no clothes. There may be great danger. People may even try to kill us. But none of these things can stop Christ's love for us. 36 As it says in the Bible:
‘Because we are your people, God,
people try to kill us all the time.
They think that we are like sheep,
and we are ready to be killed.’
37 Because God loves us, none of these troubles can ever beat us. He makes us win against them. 38-39 I am sure of this. Nothing can stop God from loving us. Death cannot do that. Life cannot do that. Angels cannot do that, nor can demons do that. Nothing that happens to us now, or that will happen in the future can do that. No powerful spirits can do that. Nothing that is high above the world can do that, nor anything that is deep down below the ground. Nothing else in the whole universe can stop God from loving us. Because of our Lord Christ Jesus, we know how much God loves us.
