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The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we
ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God,
who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. We know that all things work together for
good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those
whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,
in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. And those whom
he predestined he also called; and those whom he
called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but
gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who
will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to
condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right
hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love
of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed
all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.