Roma 5:3

5:3 Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Roma 8:35-39

8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ²  8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ³  8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory ⁴  through him ⁵  who loved us! 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, ⁶  nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[5:3]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[8:35]  ² tn Here “sword” is a metonymy that includes both threats of violence and acts of violence, even including death (although death is not necessarily the only thing in view here).

[8:36]  ³ sn A quotation from Ps 44:22.

[8:37]  ⁴ tn BDAG 1034 s.v. ὑπερνικάω states, “as a heightened form of νικᾶν prevail completely ὑπερνικῶμεν we are winning a most glorious victory Ro 8:37.”

[8:37]  ⁵ tn Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.

[8:38]  ⁶ tn BDAG 138 s.v. ἀρχή 6 takes this term as a reference to angelic or transcendent powers (as opposed to merely human rulers). To clarify this, the adjective “heavenly” has been supplied in the translation. Some interpreters see this as a reference to fallen angels or demonic powers, and this view is reflected in some recent translations (NIV, NLT).