8 31 With all this in mind, what are we to say? If God is on our side, who is against us? 8 32 He did not spare his own Son, but surrendered him for us all; and with this gift how can he fail to lavish upon us all he has to give? 8 33 Who will be the accuser of God's chosen ones? It is God who pronounces acquittal: 8 34 then who can condemn? It is Christ-Christ who died, and, more than that, was raised from the dead-who is at God's right hand, and indeed pleads our cause. 8 35 Then what can sePte us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or hardship? Can persecution, hunger, nakedness, peril, or the sword? 8 36 [ Ps.44.22. ] 'We are being done to death for thy sake all day long,' as Scripture says; 'we have been treated like sheep for slaughter' - 8 37 and yet, in spite of all, overwhelming victory is ours through him who loved us. 8 38 For I am convinced that there is nothing in death or life, in the realm of spirits or superhuman powers, in the world as it is or the world as it shall be, in the forces of the universe, 8 39 in heights or depths- nothing in all creation that can sePte us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.