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Rom. 8:39 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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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Eph. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

height.

Ex. 9:16‑17• ¹⁶And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to shew thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth.
¹⁷Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? (Ex. 9:16‑17)

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Psa. 93:3‑4• ³The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
⁴Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea. (Psa. 93:3‑4)

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Isa. 10:10‑14,33• ¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,--and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
¹¹--shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
¹²And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones;
¹⁴and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
³³Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low; (Isa. 10:10‑14,33)

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Isa. 24:21• ²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. (Isa. 24:21)

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Dan. 4:11• ¹¹The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached unto the heavens, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth. (Dan. 4:11)

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Dan. 5:18‑23• ¹⁸O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;
¹⁹and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, 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 exalted, and whom he would he humbled.
²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
²¹and 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 bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
²²And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, 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: (Dan. 5:18‑23)

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2 Thess. 2:4• ⁴who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:4)

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Rev. 13:1‑8• ¹And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads names of blasphemy.
²And the beast which I saw was like to a leopardess, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as a lion's mouth; and the dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great authority;
³and one of his heads was as slain to death, and his wound of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.
⁴And they did homage to the dragon, because he gave the authority to the beast; and they did homage to the beast, saying, Who is like to the beast? and who can make war with it?
⁵And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months.
⁶And it opened its mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and those who have their tabernacle in the heaven.
⁷And there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation;
⁸and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb. (Rev. 13:1‑8)

depth.

Rom. 11:33• ³³O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways! (Rom. 11:33)

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Psa. 64:6• ⁶They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep. (Psa. 64:6)

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Prov. 20:5• ⁵Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out. (Prov. 20:5)

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Matt. 24:24• ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matt. 24:24)

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2 Cor. 2:11• ¹¹that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts. (2 Cor. 2:11)

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2 Cor. 11:3• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3)

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2 Thess. 2:9‑12• ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,
¹²that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:9‑12)

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Rev. 2:24• ²⁴But to you I say, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I do not cast upon you any other burden; (Rev. 2:24)

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Rev. 12:9• ⁹And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9)

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; (Rev. 19:20)

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Rev. 20:3,7• ³and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time.
⁷And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed from his prison, (Rev. 20:3,7)

shall be.

John 10:28‑30• ²⁸and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
²⁹My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.
³⁰I and the Father are one. (John 10:28‑30)

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Col. 3:3‑4• ³for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
⁴When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall *ye* also be manifested with him in glory. (Col. 3:3‑4)

love.

Rom. 8:35• ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Rom. 8:35)

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Rom. 5:8• ⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us. (Rom. 5:8)

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John 3:16• ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal. (John 3:16)

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John 16:27• ²⁷for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God. (John 16:27)

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John 17:26• ²⁶And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them. (John 17:26)

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Eph. 1:4• ⁴according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love; (Eph. 1:4)

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Eph. 2:4‑7• ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
⁶and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
⁷that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:4‑7)

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Titus 3:4‑7• ⁴But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4‑7)

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1 John 4:9‑10,16,19• ⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
¹⁶And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
¹⁹*We* love because *he* has first loved us. (1 John 4:9‑10,16,19)

• Height? He is there for us. Depth? He has been there; it is the proof of His love. Difficulties? We are more than conquerors: they are the immediate occasion of the display of His love and faithfulness, making us feel where our portion is, what our strength is. Trial does but assure the heart, which knows His love, that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus. (“Romans 8” by J.N. Darby)

• Chapter 5 is more what God is thus known through the work of Christ; chapter 8 more our place in Christ before Him. Blessed to have both! (“Romans 8” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.