Romans 8:35 Cross References - WPNT

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and speak all kinds of evil against you, lying, because of Me. ¹² Rejoice and exult, because your reward in the heavens is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father’s will . ³⁰ Why even the hairs of your head are all numbered! ³¹ Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name. ¹³ But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. ¹⁴ So settle it in your hearts not to practice giving a defense beforehand; ¹⁵ because I will give you a mouth and wisdom such that all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or withstand. ¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name. ¹⁸ (Not even one hair of your head will be wasted

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

¹ Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world He loved them to the end.

³³ I have spoken these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but take heart, I have conquered the world!”

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God”.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me. ²⁴ However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God.

³ Not only so, but we should also rejoice in the sufferings, knowing that the suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ and the perseverance, proven character; and the proven character, hope; ⁵ and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty; we are poorly dressed, brutally treated, and wander homeless;

¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

⁴ rather we commend ourselves as God’s servants in every way with great endurance—in afflictions, in hardships, in distress, ⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in hard work, in sleepless nights, in fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, ⁷ by truthful speech, by God’s power, with the weapons of the righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good repute; as ‘deceivers’ and true, ⁹ as unknown and well known, as dying and we live on, as chastened and not killed; ¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything!)

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often — ²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)— ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness —

¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth, ¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace,

¹² That is why I am suffering these things, yet I am not ashamed because I know in whom I have believed and am certain that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one came to help me, but all deserted me. May it not be held against them. ¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the nations might hear. Also, I was delivered out of a lion’s mouth; ¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and save me into His heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls. ⁴ In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him; ⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.” ⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing. ⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ You should be overjoyed about this, even if just now, briefly, of necessity, you have been distressed by a variety of trials, ⁷ so that the demonstrated genuineness of your faith (much more precious than gold that perishes, albeit tested through fire) may translate into praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ

¹² Dear ones, don’t be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you as a test, as though something strange was happening to you, ¹³ but to the extent that you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that at the revelation of His glory you also may rejoice a great deal more. ¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of the glory and of God has come to rest upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood

¹⁴ So I said to him, “My lord, you know.” So he said to me: “These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation—they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He who sits on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”