What is the meaning of Romans 8:35?

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35 KJV)

William Burkitt’s Commentary

That is, none shall separate, nothing shall separate the believer from the love of Christ; either from the love that Christ bears to him, or from that love which he bears unto Christ; no person shall, no condition of life can separate them, neither outward troubles, nor inward distresses, no evils either felt or feared; the apostle defies and despises them all, because neither of them alone, nor all together, can unclasp the arms of divine love in which believers are safely enfolded.
Learn hence, That no troubles, tribulations, or distresses whatsoever, can dissolve the union between Christ and believers or ever separate them from his love.

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