Romans 8:39

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Neither heygth nor deapth, neither any other creature, shalbe able to seperate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christe Iesu our Lorde.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὔτε ὕψωμα, οὔτε βάθος, οὔτε τις κτίσις ἑτέρα, δυνήσεται ἡμᾶς χωρίσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Θεοῦ, τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Oute hypsōma, oute bathos, oute tis ktisis hetera, dynēsetai hēmas chōrisai apo tēs agapēs tou Theou, tēs en Christō Iēsou tō Kyriō of us.

Grammar Details

• *Oute*: negative disjunctive conjunction - neither
• *hypsōma*: nominative neuter singular - height
• *oute*: negative disjunctive conjunction - nor
• *bathos*: nominative neuter singular - depth
• *tis*: indefinite pronoun nominative feminine singular - any
• *ktisis*: nominative feminine singular - creation
• *hetera*: nominative feminine singular - other
• *dynēsetai*: future middle/passive indicative 3rd person singular - will be able
• *hēmas*: accusative 1st person plural - us
• *chōrisai*: aorist active infinitive - to separate
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *tēs agapēs*: genitive feminine singular - the love
• *tou Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *tēs*: relative pronoun genitive feminine singular - which is
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *Christō Iēsou*: dative masculine singular - Christ Jesus
• *tō Kyriō*: dative masculine singular - the Lord
• *hēmōn*: genitive 1st person plural - our

Word Meanings

• *hypsōma*: height/high place/elevation
• *bathos*: depth/deep place
• *ktisis hetera*: other creation/any other created thing
• *dynēsetai*: will be able/will have power [future]
• *chōrisai*: to separate/divide/part
• *agapēs*: love/affection/benevolence
• *Kyriō*: Lord/master/owner

Referenced Verses

• Rom 5:8 : 8 But God setteth out his loue towarde vs, seyng that whyle we were yet sinners, Christe dyed for vs.
• Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God? Shall tribulation or anguishe, or persecution, either hunger, either nakednesse, either peryll, either sworde?
• John 10:28-30 : 28 And I geue vnto them eternall lyfe, and they shal neuer perishe, neither shal any man plucke them out of my hande. 29 My father which gaue them me, is greater then all: and no man is able to take them out of my fathers hande. 30 I and my father are one.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the father hym selfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleued that I came out from God.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world, that we shoulde be holy, and without blame before hym, through loue.
• Eph 2:4-7 : 4 But God which is ryche in mercie, for his great loue wherwith he loued vs, 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, by grace are ye saued: 6 And hath raysed vs vp together, and made vs syt together in the heauenly in Christe Iesus. 7 That in ages to come, he might shew the exceedyng ryches of his grace, in kyndnesse to vswarde through Christe Iesus.
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 Myght be able to comprehende with al saintes, what is the breadth, & length, and deapth, and heygth: 19 And to knowe the loue of Christe, whiche excelleth knowledge, that ye might be fylled with all fulnesse of God.
• Isa 10:10-14 : 10 As who say I were able to winne the kyngdomes of the idolaters and their gods, but not Hierusalem and Samaria. 11 Shall I not do vnto Hierusalem and her images, as I dyd vnto Samaria and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to passe, that assoone as the Lorde hath perfourmed his whole worke vpon the hill of Sion and Hierusalem, then wyll I visite the fruite of the stoute heart of the kyng of Assyria with his proude lookes. 13 For he standeth thus in his owne conceipt, This do I thorowe the power of myne owne hande, & thorowe my wysdome: for I am wyse, I am he that remoue the landes of the people, I rob their treasure, and haue pulled downe the inhabitauntes like a valiaunt man. 14 My hand hath found out the strength of the people as it were a nest: and like as egges that were layde here and there, are gathered together, so do I gather all countreys, and there was none so bolde as to moue the winge, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I haue declared vnto them thy name, and wyll declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But after that the kyndenesse and loue of our sauiour God to manwarde appeared, 5 Not of workes which be in ryghteousnesse wrought, but accordyng to his mercie, he saued vs by the fountayne of regeneration and renuyng of the holy ghost, 6 Which he shed on vs richlie through Iesus Christe our sauiour: 7 That we iustified by his grace, should be made heyres accordyng to the hope of eternall lyfe.
• 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in hym.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We loue hym, for he loued vs first.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 Vnto you I say, and vnto other of the of Thyatira, as many as haue not this learnyng, & which haue not knowe the deepenesse of Satan, as they say, I wyll put vpon you none other burthen:
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuyll & Satanas, was cast out, which deceaueth all the world: And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with hym.
• Rev 13:1-8 : 1 And I stoode on the sea sande. And I sawe a beast ryse out of the sea, hauing seuen heades, and ten hornes, & vpon his hornes ten crownes, and vpon his head the name of blasphemie. 2 And the beast which I sawe, was like a Leoparde, and his feete were as the feete of a Beare, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion: And the dragon gaue hym his power, and his seate, and great aucthoritie. 3 And I sawe one of his heades, as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wounde was healed: And all the world wondred after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying: Who is lyke vnto the beast? who is able to warre with hym? 5 And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth, that spake great thynges and blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto hym, to do.xlij. monethes. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen. 7 And it was geuen vnto hym to make warre with the saintes, & to ouercome them: And power was geuen him ouer all kinredes, and tongues, and nations, 8 And al yt dwel vpon the earth, worshipped him whose names are not writte in the booke of lyfe of ye lambe, which was killed from the beginnyng of the world.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth, by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde, and dyd lyue.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with hym that false prophete that wrought miracles before hym, with which he deceaued them that receaued the beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast quicke into a ponde of fire, burnyng with brymstone:
• Rev 20:3 : 3 And cast hym into the bottomlesse pit, and he shut hym vp, and set a seale on hym, that he shoulde deceaue the people no more, tyll the thousande yeres were fulfylled: and after that, he must be loosed for a litle season.
• Rev 20:7 : 7 And when the thousande yeres are expired, Satan shalbe loosed out of his pryson.
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde, because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde, that we myght lyue through hym. 10 Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to be the agreement for our sinnes.
• Isa 10:33 : 33 But see, the Lord God of hoastes shall breake downe the bough with feare, he shall hewe downe the proude, and fell the high minded.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoast aboue that is on hye, and the kynges of the worlde that are vpon the earth.
• Dan 4:11 : 11 A great tree and strong, and the heyght therof reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.
• Dan 5:18-23 : 18 O thou king, the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour, & glorie. 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him, al people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: he slue whom he would, he smote whom it pleased him: againe, whom he would he set vp, and whom he list he put downe. 20 But because his heart was loftie, and his minde strengthened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they toke his glory from him. 21 He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth. 22 And thou his sonne, O Balthasar, hast not submitted thyne heart, though thou knewest all these thinges: 23 But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee, that thou and thy princes, with thy wyues and concubines, might drinke wine thereout: and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse and iron, of wood and stone, which neither see, heare, nor vnderstand: As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified him.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall aryse false Christes, and false prophetes, and shall shewe great signes, and wonders: In so much, that yf it were possible, the very elect, shoulde be deceaued.
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe.
• Exod 9:16-17 : 16 And in very deede for this cause haue I kept thee, for to shewe thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the worlde. 17 Yet exaltest thou thy selfe agaynst my people, that thou wylt not let them go?
• Ps 64:6 : 6 They searche out howe to do wrong, they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out: yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The fluddes are risen O God, the fluddes haue lyft vp their noyse: the fluddes haue lyft vp their waues. 4 God which is on high, is more puissaut then the noyse of many waters: then the mightie waues of the sea.
• Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsayle in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding wyll drawe it out.
• Col 3:3-4 : 3 For ye are dead, and your lyfe is hyd with Christe in God. 4 When soeuer Christe which is our life, shall appeare, then shall ye also appeare with hym in glorie.
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Whiche is an aduersarie, and is exalted aboue all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing hym selfe that he is God.
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Euen hym whose commyng is after the workyng of Satan, in all power & signes, and wonders, of lying, 10 And in all deceauablenesse of vnryghteousnesse, in them that peryshe: because they receaued not the loue of the trueth, that they myght be saued. 11 And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion, that they should beleue lyes: 12 That all they myght be dampned whiche beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnryghteousnes.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the ryches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God, howe vnsearcheable are his iudgementes, and his wayes past fyndyng out?
• 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 Lest Satan shoulde circumuent vs: For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.