To separate us (hēmās chōrisai). Aorist active infinitive of chorizō (same verb as in Rom 8:35). God’s love is victor over all possible foes, “God’s love that is in Christ Jesus.” Paul has reached the mountain top. He has really completed his great argument concerning the God-kind of righteousness save for its bearing on some special problems. The first of these concerns the fact that the Jews (God’s chosen people) have so largely rejected the gospel (chapters 9-11).