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No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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A 'Surpassing Victory'
Commentators emphasize that the Greek term for 'more than conquerors' signifies a 'surpassing victory.' This isn't merely about surviving trials but triumphing in the very midst of them. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that through Christ, suffering can paradoxically increase a believer's faith, joy, and love, turning apparent defeat into a profound spiritual victory.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Nay. But this is so, despite our severe pressures and trials.
In all these things. In the very midst of them; while we are…
Nay (αλλα). On the contrary, we shall not be separated.
We are more than conquerors (υπερνικωμεν). Late an…
19th Century
Anglican
No.—Yet, or But. So far from being vanquished, we are conquerors: when we are weak, then we are strong.
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Baptist
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, n…
Here Paul bursts into a magnificent piece of eloquence. This passage, like 1 Corinthians 3:21–23, is notable for largeness of conceptio…
16th Century
Protestant
We do more than conquer, etc.; that is, we always struggle and emerge. I have retained the word used by Paul, though not commonly…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Nay, in all these things The former words being inserted in a parenthesis, these are an answer to the question in ([…
All things whatsoever, in heaven and earth, are not as great a display of God's free love as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the…
13th Century
Catholic
