8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, ¹  but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. 8:27 And he ²  who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit ³  intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will. 8:28 And we know that all things work together ⁴  for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, 8:29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son ⁵  would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ⁶  8:30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 8:32 Indeed, he who ⁷  did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things? 8:33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? ⁸  It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ ⁹  is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us. 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ¹⁰  8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹¹  8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory ¹²  through him ¹³  who loved us! 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, ¹⁴  nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.