Bible Strands
Romans 8:39
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Roman church at the conclusion of Romans 8, finishing a rhetorical inventory of forces that cannot nullify God's saving purpose. He speaks from a position of pastoral certainty about the believer's standing in Christ.
The words — The Greek οὔτε (oute) repeats to bind ὕψωμα (hupsōma, height) and βάθος (bathos, depth) to τις...κτίσις (tis...ktisis, any created thing). This triple negative structure grammatically excludes every category from the possibility of separation.
The thread — The assertion extends the list in Romans 8:38 and aligns with the permanence stated in John 10:28 and the unconditional demonstration in Romans 5:8. It also picks up the rhetorical question posed in Romans 8:35 about what can sever the bond to Christ's love.
Why it lands — The text declares that no spatial, temporal, or created force can break the connection between believers and God's love in Christ Jesus. It demands acceptance of this as an established fact rather than a conditional assurance.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Cross-references
- John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
- Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
- Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Ephesians 3:18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
- 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- 1 John 4:9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- John 16:27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 17:26 And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”