Roma 3:13

3:13 “Their throats are open graves, ¹ 

they deceive with their tongues,

the poison of asps is under their lips.” ² 

Roma 8:22

8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

Roma 8:36-37

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!

[3:13]  ¹ tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”

[3:13]  ² sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.

[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.