Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? — The ἀγάπη (agapē, "love") of Christ is tested by a catalog of adversities: θλῖψις (thlipsis, "trouble"), στενοχωρία (stenochōria, "hardship"), διωγμός (diōgmos, "persecution"), λιμός (limos, "famine"), γυμνότης (gymnotes, "nakedness"), κίνδυνος (kindynos, "danger"), μάχαιρα (machaira, "sword"). Yet all are rhetorically suspended: none can sever the bond.

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