Romans 8:39

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us fm the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

📖 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 commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall separate us fm the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• John 10:28-30 : 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
• Eph 2:4-7 : 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
• Isa 10:10-14 : 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 But unto you I say, and unto the st in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the gat dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels we cast out with him.
• Rev 13:1-8 : 1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet we as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and gat authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it we wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wonded after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And the was given unto him a mouth speaking gat things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names a not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles befo him, with which he deceived them that had ceived the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both we cast alive into a lake of fi burning with brimstone.
• Rev 20:3 : 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no mo, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
• Rev 20:7 : 7 And when the thousand years a expid, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• Isa 10:33 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
• Dan 4:11 : 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
• Dan 5:18-23 : 18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
• John 3:16 : 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.
• Exod 9:16-17 : 16 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. 17 As yet altest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
• Ps 64:6 : 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
• Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
• Col 3:3-4 : 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Rom 11:33 : 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!
• 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.