All Things Working for Good
G. Calthrop, M.A. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. You have probably seen a large and complicated piece of machinery in full play. The parts, as you noticed, were very various — various in size and shape, various in the material of which they were made. There were wood and leather, and iron and brass; there were cranks and levers, and pistons and pulleys, and wheels great and small, with other instruments of which both the construction and the use were strange to you. And besides the difference of material, you observed a difference of movement among the parts. There was contrariety and opposition. The wheels whirled round in opposite directions; the chains seemed placed on purpose to resist each other. Checking and counterchecking, strain and counter-strain, were to be seen everywhere. And you felt confused as you stood contemplating the ceaseless and unintelligible whirl that was going on around you; yet you perceived that all the parts of the machinery, however diverse in themselves or in their mode of operation, were working together to produce a certain result — somehow or other their combined action led up to a certain definite point, and amidst all the apparent confusion, this point was invariably reached. (G. Calthrop, M.A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. WEB: We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.