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Romans 8:31-39
More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [b]39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

Matthew 15:24 (CEV) = 24 Jesus said, “I was sent only to the people of Israel! They are like a flock of lost sheep.”

RocktheHouse · M

@Diotrephes He was sent only to Israel, and he sent his disciples to spread the gospel to the world - matt. 28:19, "go and teach all nations," a fulfilment of the promise to Abraham - Genesis 12:3, "all nations will be blessed through you." Ergo, his 'seed' Jesus Christ, the savior of the world through his righteous teachings that has sprouted a global transformation

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

He was sent only to Israel, and he sent his disciples to spread the gospel to the world - matt. 28:19, "go and teach all nations," a fulfilment of the promise to Abraham - Genesis 12:3, "all nations will be blessed through you." Ergo, his 'seed' Jesus Christ, the savior of the world through his righteous teachings that has sprouted a global transformation

You are missing the point!

The tribes were scattered from Spain to Ethiopia to India.

Jesus concentrated on the Israelites in Palestine. The nations he spoke of did not include the Gentiles. He was a bigot and his message was not to the Gentiles.

Read the Bible for the way the word "nations" is used =

Genesis 35:9-11 (CEV) = "God Blesses Jacob at Bethel
After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying: I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings."

Genesis 48:19 (CEV) = "But his father said, “Son, I know what I am doing. It's true that Manasseh's family will someday become a great nation. But Ephraim will be even greater than Manasseh, because his descendants will become many great nations.”

Leviticus 4:13 (CEV) = "When the Whole Nation Sins
The Lord said:
When the nation of Israel disobeys me without meaning to, the whole nation is still guilty."

Leviticus 26:33 (CEV) = "After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations."

Deuteronomy 4:27 (CEV) = "Only a few of you will survive, and the Lord will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations."

Deuteronomy 7:1 (CEV) = "Force the Other Nations Out of the Land
(Exodus 34.11-16)
Moses said:
People of Israel, the Lord your God will help you take the land of the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. These seven nations have more people and are stronger than Israel, but when you attack them,"

Deuteronomy 7:17 (CEV) = "You may be thinking, “How can we destroy these nations? They are more powerful than we are.”"

There are 852 references to nations in the CEV so I'll stop here. But remember, Jesus focused his personal attention on the Israelites in Palestine/Canaan. The Apostles were supposed to go to the other lands and preach to the tribes that had been scattered as it says in Deuteronomy 4:27. Although Jesus was supposed to have been the son of God and could walk on water, he didn't have any wings so he couldn't fly from place to place and he would have needed the life span of Methuselah to have covered all of that area by himself.

RocktheHouse · M

@Diotrephes Greek word used in Matthew 28:19 - "go make disciples of all nations [ethnos].

1484 éthnos (from ethō, "forming a custom, culture") – properly, people joined by practicing similar customs or common culture; nation(s), usually referring to unbelieving Gentiles (non-Jews). 163 occurences

Luke 18:32
NAS: For He will be handed over to the Gentiles [éthnos] and will be mocked

all (panta) nations (ethnos) - meaning every nation on earth. Clearly, if he meant only descendants of Abraham, he would have used the same language as in Matthew 15:24 - the lost sheep of Israel.

Jesus Christ desire to save 'all nations,' including non-Israelites is also expressed in John 1:13 - They were born not of a bloodline [not descendants of Abraham], nor of human desire, nor of man’s will, but of God.

John the Baptist reiterate this - think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I. say unto you, that God is able of these. stones to raise up children unto Abraham (Matthew 3:9).

Paul, again reiterates Jesus Christ desire to save 'all nations,' in Galatians 3:29 - If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

If that's not clear enough, keep it in context, Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Gentile[Hellén - Greek speaking non-jews], neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@RocktheHouse

If that's not clear enough, keep it in context, Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Gentile[Hellén - Greek speaking non-jews], neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

You keep overlooking the fact that the Jesus character never said one word about "saving" the Gentiles. The Saul/Paul preached that. Everything the Jesus character said in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John was specific to the Jews/Hebrews/Israelites. He didn't give a damn about the Gentiles and called them dogs and swine and specifically told his Apostles to avoid them.

The Greek version is a translation of the original Latin version.