Romans 8:35

• §2739Article 2 · The Battle of PrayerRead at vatican.va

  “For St. Paul, this trust is bold, founded on the prayer of the Spirit in us and on the faithful love of the Father who has given us his only Son.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:12-13; 8:26-39.

Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III

  “For what the Word has by nature, as I said, in the Father, that He wishes to be given to us through the Spirit irrevocably; which the Apostle knowing, said, ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?’ for ‘the gifts of God’ and ‘grace of His calling are without repentance.’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35; vid. xi. 29.

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• Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.8Festal Letters

  “Still, I exhorted them to be mindful of the apostolic boldness of speech, and to say, ‘Nothing separates us from the love of Christ; neither affliction, nor distress, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor peril, nor sword.’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.9Festal Letters

  “For constant meditation, and the remembrance of divine words, strengthens piety towards God, and produces a love to Him inseparable and not merely formal; as he, being of this mind, speaks about himself and others like-minded, saying boldly, ‘Who shall separate us from the love of God?’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Antony §6

  “And after he had prayed, he said with a shout, Here am I, Antony; I flee not from your stripes, for even if you inflict more nothing shall separate me from the love of Christ.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Antony §10

  “Often they would beat me with stripes, and I repeated again and again, “Nothing shall separate me from the love of Christ,” and at this they rather fell to beating one another.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 16

  “But if any man is conscious that he is very stout-hearted, to encounter Satan, let him stand (for I do not despair of the Church’s nerves), and let him say, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ and the rest?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.3Book I

  “It is Christ Who died, yea, Who also rose again, Who is at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31–35.

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• Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16Book V

  “At the same time, we must also think of the words which, after first saying “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” he wrote next: “Neither death, nor life, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy III.1Book III

  “I am confident that neither death nor life nor angel shall do so.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35, 38.

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Origen

• Origen, De Principiis III.1Book III

  “…able to say, “Who shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus? shall tribulation, or anguish, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 7

  “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 25

  “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors for Him who hath loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Cyprian of Carthage, Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Chapter 7

  “Nay, in all these things we overcome on account of Him who hath loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35–37.

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• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.19Book III

  “But in all these things we are more than conquerors for His sake who loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35–37.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 3

  “When the Head goes before, the other members will follow; for, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 7

  “For I am persuaded,” he says, “that neither death, nor life, nor angel, nor principality, nor things present, not things to come, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35, 38, 39.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 111

  “For “all His commandments are true;” He deceiveth not, He giveth us what He promised.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John Homily 9

  “See how the apostle exults concerning this very charity: “Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Augustine of Hippo, On Patience Chapter 15

  “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us:” not through ourselves, but, “through Him that loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35–39

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount I.3Book I

  “…it is now said, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 16

  “For, “who” (he says) “shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” ( Rom. viii. 35.)” — the author cites it

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• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 38

  “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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Catena Aurea on Mark

• JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark

  “But the glory of the Lord is manifested to those, who meet together on all sides, that is, through smooth ways and steep, whom nothing can “separate from the love of Christ.” [Rom 8:35]” — the author cites it

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Catena Aurea on Matthew

• JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

  “Observe, He says, “the love of many,” not ‘of all,’ for in the Apostles, and those like them, love would continue, as Paul speaks, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” [Rom 8:35]” — the author cites it

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• Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew

  “But as the Church built by Christ cannot be thrown down, so any such Christian who has built himself upon Christ, no adversity can overthrow, according to that, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” [Rom 8:35]” — the author cites it

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 22

  “…nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35, 38, 39.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 130

  “As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35, 36.

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Letters Letter 15

  “But in all these things we overcome through Him that loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35–37.

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• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 36

  “But in all these things we overcome on account of Him who loved us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 55

  “His threshold the angel of destruction does not cross, for it is marked with the Lamb’s blood and the sign of the cross.” — editor's note: Cf. Exod. xii. 23; and below, 1 Cor. v. 8, and Rom. viii. 35.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Letters Letter 21

  “As it is written, ‘For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35, 36

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, Scorpiace Chapter 13

  “For we are persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.13Book V

  Chapter XIV.—The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of Sinful Flesh. No Docetism in It. Resurrection of Our Real Bodies. A Wide Chasm Made in the Epistle by Marcion’s…

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Chapter 2

  “Let us obtain the joy laid up, in which Paul exulting, exclaimed, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 35.

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• Ephesians 1:20

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Ephesians 1:21

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Philippians 1:24

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25.

• Philippians 3:20

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Philippians 3:21

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• 2 Timothy 2:19

  Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 7:24–27 (Catena Aurea).

• Revelation 3:21

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25.

• Deuteronomy 33:9

  Cited together in Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Chapter 7.

• Psalm 27:3

  Cited together in Life of Antony §6.

• Psalm 62:1

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Psalm 62:3

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Psalm 62:4

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Psalm 145:14

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 36.

• Psalm 145:19

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 36.

• Isaiah 5:1

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.

• Isaiah 5:2

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.

• Isaiah 5:3

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.

• Isaiah 5:5

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.

• Isaiah 52:10

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 36.

• Isaiah 52:15

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 36.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.

• Ezekiel 18:32

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.

• Matthew 5:10

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25.

• Matthew 7:26

  Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 7:24–27 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 7:27

  Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 7:24–27 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 10:18

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25.

• Matthew 10:37

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25 and 2 other places.

• Matthew 10:38

  Cited together in Epistles Letter 25 and 2 other places.

• Matthew 24:9

  Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 24:10

  Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 24:11

  Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 27:4

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.

• Mark 1:42

  Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:40–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• Mark 1:43

  Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:40–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• Mark 1:44

  Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:40–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• Mark 1:45

  Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:40–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• Luke 11:41

  Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:40–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• John 8:40

  Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.16.