At the end of chapter 8 Paul writes that “[nothing] in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord,” to which I would add the caveat, “except when our alleged ‘fellow Christians’ keep throwing up the law of letters while they themselves lack the humility that comes from the fact that they are no closer to obeying that law than are ware” (as Paul remarks in Romans 2 and following). So if we keep focusing on the “moral law,” we reveal that we are not yet truly “in Christ,” since to be “in Christ” is to live in love, which “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, and never fails.” (1 Cor. 13.7)