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Romans 8:26-39

This text is used for the Lectionary Year A on July 30, 2017.

Many would call the final section of Romans 8 the “crescendo” of the book of Romans.

One author describes it as “the apostle soaring to sublime heights unequaled elsewhere in the New Testament.” In these verses Paul is summing up much of what he has asserted in the earlier chapters of this letter: that God’s love is most definitively displayed on the cross (5:8, 8:32), that the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit (5:5) which invites us to receive a spirit of adoption pronouncing us children of God (8:16), that God’s love promises ultimately to redeem us, body and soul (8:11, 23), and offers us the opportunity to share in the glory to come (8:18). During a time of tremendous persecution, these affirmations of faith and words of assurance offer hope abounding to the believers in Rome.

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