KJV King James Version
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? [It is] God that justifieth.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? [It is] God that justifieth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
WEB World English Bible
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
ASV American Standard Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,
Surrounding context — Romans 8
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? [It is] God that justifieth.
34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Revelation 12:10-11And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.Isaiah 50:8-9[He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.Romans 8:1[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?1 Thessalonians 1:4Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.Zechariah 3:1-4And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.Romans 3:26To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.Job 42:7-9And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].1 Peter 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.Isaiah 42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.Matthew 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.Job 1:9-11Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?Galatians 3:8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.Psalm 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.Job 2:4-6And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.Job 34:8-9Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.Job 22:6-30For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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