Romans 8:35-39 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Does Romans 8:35-39 have conditions?

Romans 8:35: "Who shall-separate us from the LOVE (of) Christ? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?"

Romans 8:36: "Just as it-has-been-written that “For-your-sake we-are-being-put-to-death the whole day. We-were-considered as sheep (for) slaughter”."

Romans 8:37: "But in all these (things) we-overwhelmingly-conquer THROUGH the (One) having-loved us."

Romans 8:38: "For I-am-convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor (things) present nor (things) about-to-be-coming, nor powers,"

Romans 8:39: "nor height nor depth, nor any other creation will-be-able to-separate us from the love (of) God IN CHRIST Jesus our Lord."

The love of Christ:

It is written: "who shall-separate us from the LOVE (of) CHRIST?" (Romans 8:35).

To abide in the love of Christ is conditional, as CHRIST said: "Abide in MY LOVE. If you-keep My commandments, you-will-abide in MY LOVE" (John 15:9-10).

We conquer "through" the One having loved us:

It is written that "in all these (things) we-overwhelmingly-conquer THROUGH the (One) having-loved us" (Romans 8:37). To conquer in all these things is also conditional to happen "THROUGH the (One) having-loved us" (Romans 8:37).

The love of God:

It is written: "I-am-convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor (things) present nor (things) coming, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other will-be-able to-separate us from the LOVE (OF) GOD" (Romans 8:38-39)

To abide in the LOVE OF GOD is conditional, as it is written: "keep yourselves in (the) LOVE (OF) GOD" (Jude 1:21).

In Christ:

It is written: "I-am-convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor (things) present nor (things) coming, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other will-be-able to-separate us from the love (of) God IN CHRIST Jesus" (Romans 8:38-39).

To be "IN CHRIST" would be conditional. Paul wrote, using the conditional particle "IF": "IF anyone (is) IN CHRIST" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Someone "IN CHRIST" can end up being TAKEN AWAY by the Father from being "IN CHRIST", as Christ said: "I am the grapevine, YOU (ARE) THE BRANCHES" (John 15:5), "My Father is the land-worker. Every BRANCH IN ME not bearing fruit — HE-TAKES IT AWAY" (John 15:1-2). 

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Someone remaining "IN CHRIST" could not be separated from "the love (of) God IN CHRIST" (Romans 8:39) by any of the things that Paul listed in Romans 8:38-39 including for example "DEATH" (Romans 8:38) as it was said that someone could be "DYING IN (the) Lord" (Revelation 14:13) and then be referred by Paul as "the DEAD (ones) IN CHRIST" (1 Thessalonians 4:16).

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