Audio commentary on this verse

Note 4 at Rom. 8:31: The eighth chapter of Romans came as the answer to the hopelessness of the flesh ever pleasing God that Paul declared in the seventh chapter. The eighth chapter is full of victory through the indwelling presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul had just spoken of the Holy Spirit making intercession for us (vv. 26-27), God working all things together for our good (v. 28), and us being predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus (v. 29). Now he is drawing a conclusion from all these things. If God be for us (which is exactly what he has been saying) then no one can successfully be against us. This is an exclamation of victory for the Spirit-controlled life that Paul continues through the end of this chapter.