Romans 8:33

King James Version

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one! God is the one who makes them right.

Revised Standard Version
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Who shall laye eny thinge to ye charge of goddes chosen? it is god that iustifieth:

Hebrew Names Version
Who could bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

International Standard Version
Who can bring an accusation against God's chosen people? It is God who justifies them!Isaiah 50:8-9; Revelation 12:10-11;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Who will bring charges against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;

New Century Version
Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right.

Update Bible Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies;

Webster's Bible Translation
Who will lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth:

English Standard Version
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

World English Bible
Who could bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Weymouth's New Testament
Who shall impeach those whom God has chosen? God declares them free from guilt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who schal accuse ayens the chosun men of God? It is God that iustifieth,

English Revised Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;

Berean Standard Bible
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Contemporary English Version
If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them?

Amplified Bible
Who will bring any charge against God's elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us [declaring us blameless and putting us in a right relationship with Himself].

American Standard Version
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;

Bible in Basic English
Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

Complete Jewish Bible
So who will bring a charge against God's chosen people? Certainly not God — he is the one who causes them to be considered righteous!

Darby Translation
Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies:

Etheridge Translation
Who is against the chosen of Aloha ? Aloha justifieth.

Murdock Translation
Who will set himself against the chosen of God? It is God who justifieth.

King James Version (1611)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that iustifieth:

New Living Translation
Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself.

New Life Bible
Who can say anything against the people God has chosen? It is God Who says they are right with Himself.

New Revised Standard
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? it is God that iustifieth,

George Lamsa Translation
Who is to complain against the chosen ones of God? It is God who justifies.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who shall bring an accusation against the chosen ones of God? God, who declareth righteous?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who shall lay any thyng to the charge of Gods chosen? It is God that iustifieth:

Good News Translation
Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!

Christian Standard Bible®
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.

Lexham English Bible
Who will bring charges against God's elect? God is the one who justifies.

Literal Translation
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? God is the One justifying!

Young's Literal Translation
Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God [is] He that is declaring righteous,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who wyl laye enythinge to ye charge of Gods chosen? Here is God that maketh righteous,

Mace New Testament (1729)
who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them?

New English Translation
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

New King James Version
Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Who thinks they can accuse one of God's kids? No one can.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;

Legacy Standard Bible
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;

Contextual Overview

³¹ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. ³⁴ Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Romans 8:1, Job 1:9-11, Job 2:4-6, Job 22:6-30, Job 34:8, Job 34:9, Job 42:7-9, Psalms 35:11, Isaiah 54:17, Zechariah 3:1-4, Revelation 12:10, Revelation 12:11

of God's: Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 24:24, Luke 18:7, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, Titus 1:1, 1 Peter 1:2

It is: Romans 3:26, Isaiah 50:8, Isaiah 50:9, Galatians 3:8, Revelation 12:10, Revelation 12:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 20:2 - Appoint 2 Samuel 12:13 - thou Job 13:18 - I know Job 13:19 - that will plead Job 23:7 - so should Job 35:14 - trust Psalms 37:33 - condemn Psalms 49:5 - Wherefore Psalms 142:6 - for they Isaiah 43:26 - declare Isaiah 45:25 - the Lord Jeremiah 50:20 - the iniquity Zephaniah 3:15 - he hath Zechariah 3:2 - chosen Matthew 16:18 - shall not Mark 13:27 - his elect Luke 5:21 - Who can Luke 18:14 - justified John 5:24 - and shall not John 10:28 - they John 16:10 - righteousness Romans 4:25 - and was raised Romans 8:30 - he justified 1 Corinthians 6:11 - but ye are justified 1 Corinthians 15:17 - ye are Ephesians 1:4 - as 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - chosen Hebrews 9:24 - appear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?.... The elect of God are a certain select number of persons, whom he has so loved, as of his sovereign good will and pleasure, to choose in Christ before the foundation of the world, unto eternal life and salvation, by certain ways and means of his own appointing, as sanctification and faith, so that they are peculiarly his: but are these persons chargeable with nothing criminal? yes, with Adam's sin; with a want of original righteousness; with multitudes of sins before conversion, some of them with very great ones; and all, even after conversion, with frequent infirmities and backslidings: and will none rise up and exhibit charges of this nature against them? yes, even now, they very often bring charges against themselves; they are very apt to charge one another; Satan, the accuser of the brethren, lays many things to their charge very frequently, and so do the men of the world; but all these charges avail nothing, since none of the divine persons, Father, Son, and Spirit, lay anything against them: not God the Father, for

it is God that justifieth; he against whom sin is committed, who is the lawgiver, and the righteous judge, justifies them from every charge; not by teaching them the way of justification, nor by infusing righteousness into them, or on account of any works of righteousness done by them, but by pronouncing them righteous through the imputation of the righteousness of his Son unto them: observe, that "God's elect", as such, are the objects of justification; which proves the eternity of it; the speciality of it as belonging to particular persons, and the everlasting security and continuance of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who shall lay anything to the charge - This expression is taken from courts of law, and means, who shall accuse, or condemn, or so charge with crime before the tribunal of God as to cause their condemnation?

God’s elect - His chosen people. Those who have been chosen according to his eternal purpose; Note, Romans 8:28. As they are the chosen of God, they are dear to him; and as he purposed to save them, he will do it in such a way as that none can bring against them a charge that would condemn them.

It is God that justifieth - That is, who has pardoned them, and admitted them to his favor; and pronounced them just in his sight; Notes, Romans 1:17; Romans 3:24. It would be absurd to suppose that he would again condemn them. The fact that he has justified them is, therefore, a strong proof that they will be saved. This may be read with more force as a question, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? Shall God who justifieth?” The Greek will bear either mode of rendering. The passage implies that there would be a high degree of absurdity in supposing that the same being would both justify and condemn the same individual. The Christian, therefore, is secure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. This and the two following verses contain a string of questions, most appropriately introduced and most powerfully urged, tending to show the safety of the state of those who have believed the Gospel of the grace of God. I shall lay these verses down as they are pointed by the best Greek critics:-

"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?-God who justifieth? Who is he that condemneth? - Christ who died? or, rather, who is risen again? He, who is at the right hand of God? He, who maketh intercession for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? - Tribulation? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or sword?" In all these questions the apostle intimates that if neither GOD nor CHRIST would bring any charge against them who love him, none else could. And as God justifies through Christ who died, consequently no charge can lie against these persons, as God alone could produce any; and He, so far from doing this, has justified them-freely forgiven their trespasses.

For the proper meaning and sense of the terms chosen, elect, called, c., &c., see the discourse prefixed to this epistle and especially sect. vi. p. 19, &c., and sect. vii. p. 23, &c.