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Romans 8:38
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
ROMANS 8:38 ou;te evnestw/ta ou;te me,llonta ou;te duna,meij {A} The Textus Receptus, following K L Y most minuscule manuscripts syrp goth Chrysostom Theodoret Oecumenius Theophylact, places the word...
Verse 38. _FOR I AM PERSUADED_] After the blessed experience we have had of support by the grace and Spirit of him that loved us, that neither fear of _death_, nor hope of _life_, nor evil _angels_, _...
FOR I AM PERSUADED - I have a strong and unwavering confidence. Latin Vulgate, “I am certain.” The expression here implies unwavering certainty. NEITHER DEATH - Neither the fear of death, nor all the...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
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)....
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
PERSUADED. Compare Romans 2:8 (obey). App-150.:2. NEITHER, NOR. Greek. _oute._ PRINCIPALITIES. Greek. _arche._ See Ephesians 6:12. POWERS. App-172 and App-176 :1. PRESENT. Greek. _enistemi._ Elsewh...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_I am persuaded_ Same word as Romans 14:14, Rom 15:14; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 6:9. The word implies firm assurance on good grounds. H
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
ΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. None of the spiritual powers or influences which beset men’s lives can separate; cf. Psalms 102 (103) 11 f., 138 (139) 7 f. Behind all the powers, conditions, influences, is GOD in His...
31–39. The confidence inspired by this evidence of the love of Christ and GOD. The love which is the ground of the whole relation of GOD to man is shown in its intensity (31), and its power as reveale...
ΠΈΠΕΙΣΜΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΕΊΘΩ (G3982) убеждать; _pass._ убеждаться. _Perf._ предполагает действие в прошлом с продолжающимся результатом, ΕΝΕΣΤΏΤΑ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΈΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G1764) вкла...
DISCOURSE: 1881 PAUL’S ASSURANCE OF PERSEVERING Romans 8:38. _I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor hei...
WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? &C.— To answer the argument hence urged, to shew that man cannot fall from grace, because if once they truly loved God, they cannot cease to do so in pri...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:31-39. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also w...
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, FOR I AM PERSUADED, THAT NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS, N...
__ God's Sovereignty-Individual 37 God's love never lets us go. The trials and tribulations we endure are not tokens of His displeasure. They are all tempered by His loving heart. A sense of His lov...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS] Jewish titles of angels, here evil angels: cp. Ephesians 6:12; 1 Peter 3:22...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE ... — The enumeration that follows is intended to include (poetically rather than logically) every possible category of being, especially those unseen powers of evil against wh...
(31-39) Now follows the sublime and triumphant conclusion from the foregoing — expressed with passionate energy and with the most intense consciousness of the reality of a Christian belief in penetrat...
CHAPTER 19 THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN THE SAINTS: THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL WELFARE IN THE LOVE OF Romans 8:26 IN the last paragraph the music of this glorious didactic prophecy passed, in some solemn...
Conclusion of the argument: the Apostle glories in the assurance of God's eternal and unchangeable love in Jesus Christ. οἴδαμεν δὲ = further, we know: in a sense this is one ground more for believing...
f. The Apostle's personal conviction given in confirmation of all that has been said, especially of Romans 8:37. πέπεισμαι _cf._ 2 Timothy 1:12. οὔτε θάνατος οὔτε ζωὴ : death is mentioned first, eithe...
NO SEPARATION FROM CHRIST'S LOVE Romans 8:31 This is the close of the Apostle's argument. He has shown that believers are dear to God because they are in Christ; that their every need has been antici...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Certus sum, _Greek: pepeismai, persuasus sum. No one has an absolute certainty that they shall be saved._...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
“ _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 creation, shall be a...
TWENTIETH PASSAGE (8:31-39). HYMN OF THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. This passage is a conclusion. The _then_ of Romans 8:31 indicates this. This conclusion is directly connected with the previous teachin...
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_NO SEPARATION_ ‘For 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, s...
38.He is now carried away into hyperbolic expressions, that he might confirm us more fully in those things which are to be experienced. Whatever, he says, there is in life or in death, which seems cap...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR I AM PERSUADED,.... These words with the following, express the strong persuasion, and full assurance of faith the apostle had, that nothing whatever could separate him and the rest of God's peopl...
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Ver. 38. _For I am persuaded_] Or, I am sure by what I have heard...
_For I am persuaded_, &c. This period describes the full assurance of hope, and the inference is made in admirable order; _neither death_ Terrible as it is to natural men, a violent death in particula...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
Here are some more things to add to the list of v. 35 Death = spearation of the soul from the body Life = Greek "Zoe" and "Bios" (Zoe used here.) Bios = alive vs. dead. Biologically alive Zoe = li...
FOR. AM PERSUADED, THAT NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS, NOR PRINCIPALITIES, NOR THINGS PRESENT, NOR THINGS TO COME, NOR POWERS, "FOR. AM PERSUADED" -'I stand convinced' (Robertson p. 379) This is...
32-39 All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest fol...
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. neith...
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "Creature" is synonymous with activity, being our work, and such activity "shall not be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lo...
Romans 8:38 For G1063 persuaded G3982 (G5769) that G3754 neither G3777 death G2288 nor G3777 life G2222 nor...
THE BELIEVER CAN REST IN TOTAL ASSURANCE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSES OUT FROM BEGINNING TO END. HE CAN THEREFORE REST IN THE CERTAINTY OF HIS LOVE WHATEVER BEFALLS (8:28-39). Now...
‘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 se...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
Romans 8:38. FOR I AM PERSUADED. In thus expressing his own triumphant conviction, the Apostle not only sums up what precedes, but goes further. The list here given exceeds the previous one; not only...
Romans 8:28-39. The _third_ ground of encouragement; the Christian has nothing to fear, for nothing can separate him from the love of God (see analysis above)....
2. GROUNDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ATTESTING THE BELIEVER'S SECURITY. The life in the Spirit involves fellowship with Christ in suffering and glory (Romans 8:17). The sufferings are present, while the glory...
FOR I AM PERSUADED (πεπεισμα γαρ). Perfect passive participle of πειθω, "I stand convinced." The items mentioned are those that people dread (life, death, supernatural powers, above, below, any cre...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Romans 8:31 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...
Romans 8:38 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 a...
Romans 8:28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Oh, how many these are! Want of memory, want of faith, want of earnestness, ignorance, pride, deadness, coldness of heart, these are s...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, our inabilities: the Spirit of God comes in to be a helper to the children of God. Romans 8:26....
Romans 8:23. _And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._...
Romans 8:19. _For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ The whole creation is in a waiting posture, waiting for the glory yet to be revealed. Rom...
Romans 8:18. _For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us._ Paul made «the sufferings of this present time» into a...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
FOR I AM CERTAIN. Paul is certain that no hostile power in all the universe can separate us from his love!!! NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE. These go in pairs. "If Christ's love can hold us in and through dea...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:38 RULERS, POWERS. Probably angelic and demonic authorities. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:18 Paul began this major section of the letter (Romans 5:1) by emphasizing the final hope of believers (Rom
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 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 b...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 1 Peter 3:22;...
Powers [α ρ χ α ι]. Angelic, higher than mere angels. Things present [ε ν ε σ τ ω τ α]. Only in Paul and Hebrews 9:9. The verb literally means to stand in sight. Hence to impend or threaten. So 2 Thes...
SOME THINGS WE KNOW Romans 8:26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the realms of the humanly unknowable and unknown, the Word of God is sure and steadfast. We can say, "I know this," or, "I know that," when God...
I am persuaded — This is inferred from Romans 8:34, in an admirable order: — Neither death" shall hurt us; For "Christ is dead:" "Nor life;" 'is risen" Nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers; nor...
Our apostle concludes this excellent chapter with triumphant expressions, as he had begun it; in the first verse he proclaims, that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; here in t...