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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• ¹⁸being in love rooted and grounded that ye may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ that surpasseth knowledge, that ye may be filled to all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

height.

Ex. 9:16‑17• ¹⁶And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to show 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 (rivers) lifted up,{HR}O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice;{HR}The floods lift up their roaring.
⁴Above the voices of many mighty waters,{HR}Breakers of the sea, mighty [is] Jehovah on high. (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 of Samaria),
¹¹shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
¹²And it shall come to pass [that], when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout 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 prudent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have put 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 terror; and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty [shall be] humbled. (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 on 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 his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; 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• ⁴he that opposeth and exalteth himself exceedingly against every one called god, or object of veneration; so that he sitteth down in the temple of God, showing 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 on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
²And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet as a bear's, and his mouth as a lion's mouth; and the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
³And I saw one of his heads as slain unto death; and his deadly wound was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.
⁴And they worshipped the dragon, because he gave the authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? and who is able to make war with him?
⁵And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy; and there was given him authority to work forty-two months.
⁶And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle [and] those that tabernacle in the heaven.
⁷And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
⁸And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, of whom the name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain, from the world's foundation. (Rev. 13:1‑8)

depth.

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

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Psa. 64:6• ⁶They devise iniquities:{HR}We are ready (finished)! a well-devised device!{HR}And each one's inward [thought] and heart [is] deep. (Psa. 64:6)

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Prov. 20:5• ⁵Counsel in man's heart [is] deep water;{HR}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 be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his devices. (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, your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward 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 for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error that they should believe falsehood,
¹²that all might be judged who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:9‑12)

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Rev. 2:24• ²⁴But to you I say, the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine which have not known the depths of Satan (as they say): I put upon you no other burden: (Rev. 2:24)

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

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴and he deceiveth those that dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to do before the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who hath the wound of the sword and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs before him, with which he deceived those that had received the mark of the beast and those that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone. (Rev. 19:20)

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Rev. 20:3,7• ³and cast him into the abyss, and shut and sealed it over him, that he might deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished: after these must he be loosed a little space.
⁷And when the thousand years shall have been finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, (Rev. 20:3,7)

shall be.

John 10:28‑30• ²⁸and I give them life eternal, and they shall in no wise ever perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
²⁹My Father who hath given me [them] is greater than all; and no one is able to 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 died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
⁴When the Christ, our life, shall be manifested, 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 anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Rom. 8:35)

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Rom. 5:8• ⁸but God commendeth his own love towards us, because, while we were yet sinners, Christ 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 every one that believeth on him should not perish but have life eternal. (John 3:16)

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John 16:27• ²⁷for the Father himself dearly loveth you because ye have dearly loved me and have believed that I came out from God. (John 16:27)

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John 17:26• ²⁶And I made thy name known to them and will make [it] known, that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them and I in them. (John 17:26)

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Eph. 1:4• ⁴even as he chose 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, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
⁷that he might show forth in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:4‑7)

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

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1 John 4:9‑10,16,19• ⁹Herein was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath 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 [as] propitiation for our sins.
¹⁶And we have known and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him.
¹⁹We love, because he 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.