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Romans 8:38-39

罗马书 8:38-39

The Passage

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 created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In the other language

因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。

Theme

Nothing can separate

Bring a question to this passage

Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Nothing in Paul's sweeping list is strong enough to separate us from God's love in Christ. This passage does not offer a strategy for a difficult season at work; it offers an assurance about love that is not dependent on circumstances. The present and the future are both named, making room for the trouble you know and the uncertainty you cannot yet describe. This is not a promise that either will be painless. It is an invitation to stop treating every threat as a threat to being loved. Which part of your working life feels different when you do not have to secure love through it?

Carry thisGod's love in Christ is not dependent on circumstances.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Bring your desire to love this person better into the room with you as you read. This passage does not directly teach relationship skills, but it offers an assurance that nothing created can separate you from God's love in Christ. That love is not a reward for getting every conversation right, and you can receive it even while acknowledging where you have hurt someone. As you rest with these words, you might find room to listen without defending yourself, or to speak honestly without trying to control the response. Nothing in creation can separate you from God's love; how might receiving that love change the way you meet this person?

Carry thisGod’s love is not measured by another person’s approval.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Beneath the noise of a busy day, you may long for a place where nothing needs proving. This passage does not give you a method for finding stillness, but it offers assurance that neither present demands nor things to come can separate you from God's love in Christ. You can pause with that assurance while the tasks remain unfinished and your thoughts continue moving. Stillness need not mean making your life quiet enough to deserve love; it can mean receiving the love that busyness cannot take away. When you consider the coming weeks, knowing this passage does not name what you should let go of, what pressure might ease as you rest in the love that nothing can take from you?

Carry thisGod's love in Christ is not held together by your vigilance.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Before you try to quiet your mind, let yourself linger with the love named here. This passage does not directly offer a method for stillness, but it speaks of a bond that busyness cannot break. Your unfinished work is real. So is your weariness. Neither needs to disappear before you can turn toward God. Paul’s confidence rests in the love of God in Christ Jesus, not in your ability to become calm. You can pause without making that pause another test to pass. This passage offers no method for stillness. In what way might resting in God's inseparable love ease the pressure to make yourself calm?

Carry thisThe love described here does not depend on your productivity.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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Romans 8 — in context

32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 8:35-39 · Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · 13:43

Daily Lectio Divina podcast · Abiding Way Ministries (Sharon Garlough Brown) · abidingway.life · Featured with permission

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