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How to memorize Romans 8:31–39

Romans 8:31–39 is 9 verses. Learned a verse a day, a line at a time (26 lines in all), it takes about 12 days.

The close of a long argument that began in chapter 5. Paul asks a series of questions, each answered by what God has done, and ends with a list of things that cannot separate us from God's love.

Romans 8:31–39 in 26 lines

Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Learn a verse by adding one line at a time.

1. 8:31
   1. What then shall we say in response to these things?
   2. If God is for us, who can be against us?
2. 8:32
   1. He who did not spare His own Son
   2. but gave Him up for us all,
   3. how will He not also,
   4. along with Him, freely give us all things?
3. 8:33
   1. Who will bring any charge against God’s elect?
   2. It is God who justifies.
4. 8:34
   1. Who is there to condemn us?
   2. For Christ Jesus, who died,
   3. and more than that was raised to life,
   4. is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
5. 8:35
   1. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
   2. Shall trouble or distress
   3. or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
6. 8:36
   1. As it is written:
   2. “For Your sake we face death all day long;
   3. we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
7. 8:37
   1. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him
   2. who loved us.
8. 8:38
   1. For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
   2. neither angels nor principalities,
   3. neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
9. 8:39
   1. neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
   2. will be able to separate us from the love of God
   3. that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

How to memorize it, five minutes a day

1. One phrase at a time. Read the first phrase aloud twice. Cover it and say it. Uncover it and check every word.
2. Add the next phrase only when the first comes easily, then say the two together. Keep joining until the verse is whole.
3. Come back tomorrow and say it before you look. Rate yourself honestly: got it, needed help, or practise again.
4. Space the reviews. Each time you recall it without help, wait longer before the next review: a day, three days, a week, a month.
5. Say the whole passage once a week so the verses stay joined, not just memorized one by one.

King James Version

³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³²He 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? ³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. ³⁴Who 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. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹Nor 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.