Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
33. Who shall bring an accusation, etc. The first and the chief consolation of the godly in adversities, is to be fully persuaded of the paternal kindness of God; for hence arises the certainty of their salvation, and that calm quietness of the soul through which it comes that adversities are sweetened, or at least the bitterness of sorrow mitigated.
Paul throws down the gauntlet here: if God be for us, who can prevail against us? All His attributes, all His promises, all that He is and has, stands for His people. Even when He seems to act against them, He remains for them.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 8:31-39
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...