Romans 8:28
paul
Has a very rhetorical style he often asks rhetorical questions and then answers them so larger chunks of scripture helps gather his message
hes explaining
“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. For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
What shall we then say to these things? ( then asks a rhetorical question )
( Then as we’re it for us “what do we say to all this I’ve Jesus explained ?” )
If God be for us, who can be against us?
( now he witnesses what God has done to show us )
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, ( if he proves this is how far he’ll go to save us )
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? ( another rhetorical question to make his point )
( And again )
Who is he that condemneth?
(and finally an answer of edification and confidence In Our hope of all he’s been saying )
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen ( Paul’s doctrine always comes back to the death and resurrection and also the ascention of Jesus ) again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. ( he’s still Our intercessor so who can charge us ?)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ( more rhetorical inquiry to further establish his single point )
As it is written,( biblical proof to support his claim )
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
(a now the finale of his point)
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 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.”
Romans 8:28-32, 34-39 KJV
Paul’s style requires us to read larger sections because his points flow back and forth if we pluck a verse out we have to see the context to know what he’s saying he makes king speeches but is always driving at a point