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what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for
us with unspeakable groanings,

Asketh for us... The Spirit is said to ask, and desire for the saints,
and to pray in us; inasmuch as he inspireth prayer, and teacheth us to
pray.

8:27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth:
because he asketh for the saints according to God.

8:28. And we know that to them that love God all things work together
unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be
saints.

8:29. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable
to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many
brethren.

He also predestinated, etc... That is, God hath preordained that all his
elect should be conformable to the image of his Son. We must not here
offer to pry into the secrets of God's eternal election; only firmly
believe that all our good, in time and eternity, flows originally from
God's free goodness; and all our evil from man's free will.

8:30. And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he
called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also
glorified.

8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is
against us?

8:32. He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

8:33. Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that
justifieth:

8:34. Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is
risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.

8:35. Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or
persecution? Or the sword?

8:36. (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day
long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

8:37. But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath
loved us.

8:38. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
might,

I am sure... That is, I am persuaded; as it is in the Greek, pepeismai.

8:39. 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.

Romans Chapter 9

The apostle's concern for the Jews. God's election is free and not
confined to th