Romans 8:33
New International Version
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

New Living Translation
Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself.

English Standard Version
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Berean Standard Bible
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Berean Literal Bible
Who will bring an accusation against the elect of God? God is the One justifying.

King James Bible
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

New King James Version
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

New American Standard Bible
Who will bring charges against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

NASB 1995
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

NASB 1977
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

Legacy Standard Bible
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

Amplified Bible
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us [declaring us blameless and putting us in a right relationship with Himself].

Christian Standard Bible
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the One who justifies.

American Standard Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who shall accuse The Elect of God? God is He Who declares righteous.

Contemporary English Version
If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God that justifieth.

English Revised Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? God has approved of them.

Good News Translation
Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!

International Standard Version
Who will accuse God's elect? It is God who justifies!

Literal Standard Version
Who will lay a charge against the chosen ones of God? God [is] He that is declaring righteous;

Majority Standard Bible
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

New American Bible
Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.

NET Bible
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

New Revised Standard Version
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

New Heart English Bible
Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who will lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth:

Weymouth New Testament
Who shall impeach those whom God has chosen? God declares them free from guilt.

World English Bible
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

Young's Literal Translation
Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

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Context
God Works In All Things
32He who 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? 33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.…

Cross References
Isaiah 50:8
The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

Luke 18:7
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?


Treasury of Scripture

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.

Who.

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.

Job 1:9-11
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? …

Job 2:4-6
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life…

of God's.

Isaiah 42:1
Behold 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 24:24
For 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.

Luke 18:7
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

It is.

Romans 3:26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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…

Galatians 3:8
And 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.

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Romans 8
1. Those who are in Christ are free from condemnation.
5. What harm comes of the flesh;
13. and what good of the Spirit.
19. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for,
29. was beforehand decreed from God.
38. Nothing can sever us from his love.














(33, 34) Who shall lay any thing . . .?--The punctuation and arrangement of these clauses are somewhat difficult. It seems best on the whole to connect together the two clauses at the end of Romans 8:33, and beginning of Romans 8:34. The whole passage to the end of the chapter will then form a continuous proof of the certainty that all things shall be freely given to the Christian. Nothing can frustrate this: either on the side of God, for when He justifies none can condemn; or on the side of Christy whose death, and resurrection, and ascension, and intercession are pledges that nothing can separate us from His love.

What have we to fear? When God pronounces our acquittal there is none who can pronounce our condemnation. Literally, God is He who justifies, who then can condemn? And answering to this in the next verse we have, Christ is He that died, &c. This is the two-fold answer to the question, "Who shall come forward to accuse God's elect?" It is a conclusive reply to this to state the relation in which the accused stand to God and to Christ.

God's elect.--Christians as such with especial reference to the process which the Apostle has been describing in Romans 8:29-30.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Who
τίς (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

will bring any charge
ἐγκαλέσει (enkalesei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1458: To bring a charge against, accuse. From en and kaleo; to call in, i.e. Bring to account.

against
κατὰ (kata)
Preposition
Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined).

God’s
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

elect?
ἐκλεκτῶν (eklektōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 1588: From eklegomai; select; by implication, favorite.

[It is] God
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

[who]
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

justifies.
δικαιῶν (dikaiōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1344: From dikaios; to render just or innocent.


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