if the Lord does not build the house
What then shall we say of these things? If God is before us, who will be against us? How will he, who does not spare even his own Son, but has surrendered to us all, not all of us with Him? Who will accuse the chosen ones of God? It is God who justifies; who will condemn? Christ Jesus is the dead, what is more, the resurrected, who is on the right hand of God, who also pleads for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation or distress. Whether persecution or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? As it is written
,For your sake we are killed all day,
we are counted as sheep of slaughter
;but in all of this we are more than victors by Him who loved us. For I am assured that neither death nor life, nor angels nor powers, nor present, nor future, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Romans 8:31 -39
