Romans 8:38

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πέπεισμαι γὰρ, ὅτι οὔτε θάνατος, οὔτε ζωὴ, οὔτε ἄγγελοι, οὔτε ἀρχαὶ, οὔτε δυνάμεις, οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα, οὔτε μέλλοντα,

Transliteration

Pepeismai gar, hoti oute thanatos, oute zōē, oute angeloi, oute archai, oute dynameis, oute enestōta, oute mellonta,

Grammar Details

• *Pepeismai*: perfect passive indicative 1st person singular - I have been persuaded
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *oute*: negative disjunctive conjunction - nor
• *thanatos*: nominative masculine singular - death
• *zōē*: nominative feminine singular - life
• *angeloi*: nominative masculine plural - angels
• *archai*: nominative feminine plural - rulers/principalities
• *dynameis*: nominative feminine plural - powers
• *enestōta*: perfect active participle nominative neuter plural - things present
• *mellonta*: present active participle nominative neuter plural - things to come

Word Meanings

• *Pepeismai*: I have been persuaded/convinced/am certain [perfect passive - completed action with continuing results]
• *thanatos*: death/separation
• *zōē*: life/existence
• *angeloi*: angels/messengers
• *archai*: rulers/principalities/authorities
• *dynameis*: powers/forces/mighty deeds
• *enestōta*: things present/things already established [completed action]
• *mellonta*: things to come/future things [ongoing]

Referenced Verses

• John 10:28 : 28 and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
• Eph 1:21 : 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;
• 2 Cor 5:4-8 : 4 for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life. 5 And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit; 6 having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -- 7 for through faith we walk, not through sight -- 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• 1 Cor 3:22-23 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours, 23 and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.
• 1 Pet 5:8-9 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, 9 whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished. 10 And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle `you';
• Col 1:16 : 16 because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,
• Col 2:15 : 15 having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
• Heb 11:13 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
• 1 Cor 15:54-58 : 54 and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory; 55 where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?' 56 and the sting of the death `is' the sin, and the power of the sin the law; 57 and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ; 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 4:13 : 13 And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;
• Rom 4:21 : 21 and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:
• Eph 6:11-12 : 11 put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, 12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
• Phil 1:20-23 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death, 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain. 22 And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not; 23 for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,
• 2 Cor 11:14 : 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;
• Rom 14:8 : 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;