Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all da
Compare this passage with John Bunyan's passage on "The Pilgrim Progress" published by Desiring God. It starts with Wordly-Wise advsing Christian: "Hear me, I am older than thou; thou art like to meet with, on the way which thou goest, wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils, nakedness, sword, lions, dragons, darkness, and, in a word, death, and what not! These things are certainly true, having been confirmed by many testimonies. And why should a man so carelessly cast away himself, by giving heed to a stranger? CHRISTIAN. Why, Sir, this burden upon my back is more terrible to me than are all these things which you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care not what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden." It seems thepat Christian is more concerned about life than death. That's ver interesting, isn't it, guys? Sorry for the typoos...
Romans 8:35–39The Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,
height or depth,
- Matthew 7;13-14 the gate and narrow (in the LEB it render constricted, which seems fitting as it gives credance to the struggles and pressures we gace as we walk with our Lord) the standard Christ set for us, is one of persecution and strive, as any who desires to seek after holiness, and live righteously, will be persecuted.