Romans 8:39

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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 <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 8:39 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
  2. Psalms 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
  3. Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
  4. Proverbs 20:5The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
  5. Isaiah 10:10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
  6. Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
  7. Isaiah 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
  8. Daniel 4:11The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
  9. Daniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
  10. Matthew 24:24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
  11. John 3:16For 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.
  12. John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
  13. John 16:27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
  14. John 17:26And 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.”
  15. Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  16. Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
  17. Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  18. 2 Corinthians 2:11in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
  19. 2 Corinthians 11:3I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
  20. Ephesians 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
  21. Ephesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
  22. Ephesians 3:18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
  23. Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
  24. 2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

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