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<span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Our Victory in Christ</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for <i>us</i> with groanings too deep for words; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to <i>the will of</i> God. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to <i>His</i> purpose. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined <i>to become</i> conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>What then shall we say to these things? If God <i>is</i> for us, who <i>is</i> against us? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Who will bring a charge against Gods elect? God is the one who justifies; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>Just as it is written,<br>         F<font size="1">OR</font> Y<font size="1">OUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG</font>;<br>         W<font size="1">E WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED</font>.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/8-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/romans/8.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/romans/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/romans/8.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/romans/8.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/romans/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/romans/8.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/romans/8.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/romans/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful_thoughts/december_18_0.htm">December 18:</a><br></span><span class="snippet">December 18th. The misgiving which will creep sometimes over the brightest faith has already received its expression and its rebuke: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" Shall these "changes in the physical state of the environment" which threaten death to the natural man, destroy the spiritual? Shall death, or life, or angels, or principalities, or powers, arrest or tamper with his eternal correspondences? <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful_thoughts/december_18_0.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry Drummond—</span><span class="citation2">Beautiful Thoughts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_10_if_ye_through.htm">October 10. "If Ye, through the Spirit, do Mortify the Deeds of the Body, Ye Shall Live" (Rom. viii. 13). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"If ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live" (Rom. viii. 13). The Holy Spirit is the only one who can kill us and keep us dead. Many Christians try to do this disagreeable work themselves, and they are going through a continual crucifixion, but they can never accomplish the work permanently. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, and when you really yield yourself to the death, it is delightful to find how sweetly He can slay you. By the touch of the electric spark they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_10_if_ye_through.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_6_as_many_as.htm">August 6. "As Many as are Led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God" (Rom. viii. 14). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God" (Rom. viii. 14). The blessed Holy Spirit is our Guide, our Leader, and our Resting-place. There are times when He presses us forward into prayer, into service, into suffering, into new experiences, new duties, new claims of faith, and hope, and love, but there are times when He arrests us in our activity, and rests us under His overshadowing wing, and quiets us in the secret place of the Most High, teaching us some new lessons, breathing <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_6_as_many_as.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_12_the_law_of.htm">October 12. "The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus Hath Made Me Free" (Rom. viii. 2). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free" (Rom. viii. 2). The life of Jesus Christ brought into our heart by the Holy Spirit, operates there as a new law of divine strength and vitality, and counteracts, overcomes and lifts us above the old law of sin and death. Let us illustrate these two laws by a simple comparison. Look at my hand. By the law of gravitation it naturally falls upon the desk and lies there, attracted downward by that natural law which makes heavy bodies fall <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_12_the_law_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_8_for_the_law.htm">November 8. "For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus Hath Made Me Free" (Rom. viii. 2). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free" (Rom. viii. 2). There is a natural law of sin and sickness, and if we just let ourselves go and sink into the trend of circumstances we shall go down and sink under the power of the tempter. But there is another law of spiritual life and of physical life in Christ Jesus to which we can rise and through which we can counterpoise and overcome the other law that bears us down. But to do this requires real spiritual energy and fixed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_8_for_the_law.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_27_the_glorious_liberty.htm">September 27. "The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God" (Rom. viii. 21). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The glorious liberty of the children of God" (Rom. viii. 21). Are you above self and self-pleasing in every way? Have you got above circumstances so that you are not influenced by them? Are you above sickness and the evil forces around that would drag down your physical life into the quicksands? These forces are all around, and if yielded to would quickly swamp us. God does not destroy sickness, or its power to hurt, but He lifts us above it. Are you above your feelings, moods, emotions and states? <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_27_the_glorious_liberty.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_11_and_he_that.htm">October 11. "And He that Searcheth the Hearts Knoweth what is the Mind of the Spirit, Because He Maketh Intercession for the Saints According to the Will of God" (Rom. viii. 27). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God" (Rom. viii. 27). The Holy Spirit becomes to the consecrated heart the Spirit of intercession. We have two Advocates. We have an Advocate with the Father, who prays for us at God's right hand; but the Holy Spirit is the Advocate within, who prays in us, inspiring our petitions and presenting them, through Christ, to God. We need this Advocate. We know <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_11_and_he_that.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_21_who_shall_separate.htm">October 21. "Who Shall Separate us from the Love of Christ?" (Rom. viii. 35). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (Rom. viii. 35). And then comes the triumphant answer, after all the possible obstacles and enemies have been mentioned one by one, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us." Our trials will be turned to helps; our enemies will be taken prisoners and made to fight our battles. Like the weights on yonder clock, which keep it going, our very difficulties will prove incentives to faith and prayer, and occasions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_21_who_shall_separate.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_1_that_the_righteousness.htm">June 1. "That the Righteousness of the Law Might be Fulfilled in Us" (Rom. viii. 4). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us" (Rom. viii. 4). Beloved friends, do you know the mistake some of you are making? Some of you say: "It is not possible for me to be good; no man ever was perfect, and it is no use for me to try." That is the mistake many of you are making. I agree with the first sentence, "No man ever was perfect"; but I don't agree with the second, "There is no use trying." There is a divine righteousness that we may have. I don't mean merely that which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_1_that_the_righteousness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_13_the_carnal_mind.htm">October 13. "The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God" (Rom. viii. 7). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Rom. viii. 7). The flesh is incurably bad. "It is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can be." It never can be any better. It is no use trying to improve the flesh. You may educate it all you please. You may train it by the most approved methods, you may set before it the brightest examples, you may pipe to it or mourn to it, treat it with encouragement or severity; its nature will always be incorrigibly the same. Like the wild hawk which the little <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_13_the_carnal_mind.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_4_ye_are_not.htm">August 4. "Ye are not in the Flesh but in the Spirit if So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ He is None of His" (Rom. viii. 9). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His" (Rom. viii. 9). A spiritual man is not so much a man possessing a strong spiritual character as a man filled with the Holy Spirit. So the apostle said: "Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you." The glory of the new creation, then, is not only that it recreates the human spirit, but that it fits <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_4_ye_are_not.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. 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