Romans 8

✓ Never says it is quoting, anywhere: no verse cited, no reference, nothing framed as scripture

⚠ Fear is the passage's result, not its master. Romans 6:16-18 and 8:2 name slavery to sin and to the law of sin and death

✓ The song keeps the definition Romans 8:29 gives to the word good. The second verse names a thorn that God helps the singer carry rather than remove, and the outcome it sings is a heart turned toward God, not a changed circumstance

⚠ The bounding clause is never sung. Romans 8:28 states the promise for those who love God and are called according to His purpose, and the song carries the promise without carrying the condition

✓ The bridge keeps Paul's question as a question. It asks rather than asserts, which is the verse's own rhetorical mode, and it planted a Romans 8 conditional in one of the most-sung choruses of its decade

⚠ In Romans the "if" concludes verses 28 to 30. "These things" have a referent, and the "us" is the people God called and justified. The song sings the conditional without the chain it rests on

✓ The whole chapter, in order, including verse 36's sheep-to-be-slaughtered quotation, which songs drawn from this passage almost never keep

✓ no cautions: this is the standard