romans-8:38-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:38-39

‘For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 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.’ Paul closes this part of his letter with this final assurance of God’s love for His people revealed through Christ Jesus our LORD. He stresses that it is a love from which it is totally impossible to be separated, and he then lists... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:28-39

Romans 8:28-Malachi : . The Christian Assurance. Romans 8:28 . One thing “ we do know, that all goes well for those that love God”— including their worst sufferings ( Romans 8:18; cf. Romans 5:3-Deuteronomy :). Romans 8:29 f. This assurance rests on God’ s manifest purpose toward them— a “ purpose” disclosed in five successive steps: “ foreknowledge, pre-ordination, call, justification, glorification.” The foreknowledge covers everything about the persons concerned; God never acts by guess (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:38

For I am persuaded; or, I am fully assured, not by any special revelation, but by the same spirit of faith, which is common to all believers, 2 Corinthians 4:13. Neither death, nor life; i.e. neither fear of death, nor hope of life. Nor angels. 1. The evil angels; for the good angels would not attempt the separating us from the love of Christ. 2. There are some, that think the good angels to be also here intended; and they understand it by way of supposition: q.d. If they should endeavour such... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:39

Nor height, nor depth; i.e. neither the height of honour and worldly advancement, nor the depth of disgrace and worldly abasement. Some take height and depth for a comprehensive expression, which the Scripture uses, when he takes in all, and leaves nothing out. Nor any other creature; this is added to the rest, as an &c. at the end of a sentence; and to supply whatever our fancies might in this case, frame to themselves. Or the apostle here makes an end of his induction; and because it had... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 8:33-39

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 8:36. We are being killed.—To express the intensely present.Romans 8:37.—Are triumphantly victorious. Have superabundant strength.Romans 8:38. For I am persuaded, etc.—To be induced to believe, to yield to, is πείθειν (Pass. and Midd.). θάνατος violent death, often threatened.Romans 8:39.—High and low places from which the Christians suffered.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 8:33-39Christian certainties.—St. Paul observed due proportion. He could treat of high... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:31-39

Romans 8:31-39 There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith. I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits and justifies the sinner. II. The adversary may accuse; condemn, he dare not. For Jesus, the Judge, is in His own person a threefold, fourfold answer to every charge against His people. III. The Apostle flings down his glove to the forces of the world. What is his challenge but an echo to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:38-39

Romans 8:38-39 I. To live by the doctrine of Easter is to make that foresight of another world the standard by which we measure this world. Think of all pleasures, of all solicitations, of all pursuits as you will think of them then. A few years more, and how utterly indifferent you will be to the chief enjoyments of this world! You will be standing in the presence of Christ: how little you will care how successful you may have been, how rich you may have been, how admired, how delighted with... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 8:38-39

DISCOURSE: 1881PAUL’S ASSURANCE OF PERSEVERINGRomans 8:38-39. I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.AS there is a typical resemblance between that good land which was promised to the Jews, and that better country which is reserved for us in heaven, so is there a striking... read more

C.I. Scofield