Romans 8:39
New International Version
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.

New Living Translation
No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

English Standard Version
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
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 Literal Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New American Standard Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NASB 1995
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NASB 1977
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amplified Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Christian Standard Bible
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

American Standard 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.

Contemporary English Version
and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.

Good News Translation
neither the world above nor the world below--there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.

International Standard Version
nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is ours in union with the Messiah Jesus, our Lord.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

NET Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New Heart English Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God which rests upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

World English Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Berean Literal Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Smith's Literal Translation
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New American Bible
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our LORD.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Nor height, nor depth, neither any other created thing, shall be able to sever me from the love of God, which is in our Lord Yeshua The Messiah.
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Godbey New Testament
nor powers, 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.

Haweis New Testament
nor exaltation, nor deepest depression, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mace New Testament
neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God which rests upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Worrell New Testament
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Worsley New Testament
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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
More than Conquerors
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither 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.

Cross References
Ephesians 3:18-19
will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth / of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

John 10:28-29
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. / My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

Psalm 139:7-10
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? / If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. / If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, ...

Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Isaiah 54:10
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:14
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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 4:9-10
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. / And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 Peter 1:5
who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

2 Timothy 1:12
For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.

Isaiah 49:15-16
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! / Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

Lamentations 3:22-23
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. / They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Nor.

Ephesians 3:18,19
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; …

height.

Exodus 9:16,17
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth…

Psalm 93:3,4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves…

Isaiah 10:10-14,33
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; …

depth.

Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Psalm 64:6
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

shall be.

John 10:28-30
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand…

Colossians 3:3,4
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God…

love.

Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Romans 8
1. Those who are in Christ are free from condemnation.
5. What harm comes of the flesh;
13. and what good of the Spirit.
19. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for,
29. was beforehand decreed from God.
38. Nothing can sever us from his love.














nor 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
nor height, nor depth
The terms "height" and "depth" in this context can be understood as metaphors for any extreme or dimension in the universe. The Greek words used here, "hypsōma" (height) and "bathos" (depth), suggest the vastness of creation and the immeasurable distances that exist within it. Historically, these terms could also refer to astrological or cosmic powers believed to influence human fate. Paul is emphasizing that no cosmic force or spatial dimension can sever the bond between believers and God's love. This reflects the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, who transcends all physical and spiritual realms.

nor anything else in all creation
This phrase serves as a comprehensive inclusion of all possible entities or forces that might be imagined. The Greek word "ktisis" (creation) encompasses everything that has been made, indicating that no created thing, whether seen or unseen, has the power to disrupt the relationship between God and His people. This assurance is rooted in the understanding of God as the Creator, who holds authority over all creation. Historically, this would have been a powerful statement against any pagan beliefs in multiple gods or spiritual forces that could interfere with divine love.

will be able to separate us
The Greek verb "dynamai" (to be able) underscores the absolute inability of any force to achieve separation. The use of this verb in the future tense indicates a perpetual promise, assuring believers of their eternal security in God's love. The concept of separation here is not merely physical but also spiritual and relational. This assurance would have been particularly comforting to early Christians facing persecution, reminding them that no external circumstance could sever their connection to God.

from the love of God
The "love of God" is the central theme of this passage, highlighting the divine, unconditional, and sacrificial nature of God's love for humanity. The Greek word "agape" is used here, which denotes a selfless, unwavering love that seeks the best for others. This love is not based on human merit but is a reflection of God's character and His covenantal faithfulness. In the broader scriptural context, God's love is demonstrated supremely through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord
The phrase "in Christ Jesus our Lord" signifies the means by which believers experience God's love. The preposition "in" (Greek "en") indicates a profound union and identification with Christ. This union is the basis for the believer's security and assurance, as it is through Christ's redemptive work that God's love is fully realized and accessible. The title "our Lord" affirms the authority and lordship of Jesus, emphasizing His role as the mediator of God's love. Historically, this declaration would have been a bold affirmation of faith in the face of Roman imperial claims of lordship, asserting that true allegiance belongs to Christ alone.

(39) Nor height, nor depth.--No remoteness in space. (Comp. Psalm 139:8 et seq. "If I ascend up into heaven," &c.)

Any other creature.--Any other created thing.

The love of God.--It is to be observed that for the shorter phrase, "the love of Christ," the Apostle now substitutes the fuller but, as it would seem, equivalent phrase, "the love of God in Christ."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
neither
οὔτε (oute)
Conjunction
Strong's 3777: And not, neither, nor. From ou and te; not too, i.e. Neither or nor; by analogy, not even.

height
ὕψωμα (hypsōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5313: Height, barrier, bulwark; presumption. From hupsoo; an elevated place or thing, i.e. altitude, or a barrier.

nor
οὔτε (oute)
Conjunction
Strong's 3777: And not, neither, nor. From ou and te; not too, i.e. Neither or nor; by analogy, not even.

depth,
βάθος (bathos)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 899: From the same as bathus; profundity, i.e. extent; mystery.

nor
οὔτε (oute)
Conjunction
Strong's 3777: And not, neither, nor. From ou and te; not too, i.e. Neither or nor; by analogy, not even.

anything
τις (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

else
ἑτέρα (hetera)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2087: (a) of two: another, a second, (b) other, different, (c) one's neighbor. Of uncertain affinity; other or different.

in all creation,
κτίσις (ktisis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2937: From ktizo; original formation.

will be able
δυνήσεται (dynēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1410: (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible.

to separate
χωρίσαι (chōrisai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 5563: From chora; to place room between, i.e. Part; reflexively, to go away.

us
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

from
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

love
ἀγάπης (agapēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

that [is]
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

Christ
Χριστῷ (Christō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Lord.
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.


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