Romans Chapter 8 verse 38 Holy Bible

Romans 8 : 38 Bible Verse Songs

• Crazy Love by Chris McClarney
• Your Love is Strong by Cory Asbury + Bethel Music
• Nothing is Holding Me Back by Kalley Heiligenthal + Bethel Music
• No One Can by Spirit Of Praise + Women In Praise
• Now To Jesus by Philippa Hanna + Abby Scott
• I'm Leaning On You by Passion City Church
• This We Know by Vertical Worship
• No Distance by Uchenna + CalledOut Music
• Forever Yours by Martin Smith
• My Heart by Folabi Nuel
• Sing It Out (He's Alive) by KXC
• I Love To Tell The Story by Alan Jackson
• I Feel His Love by Laura Hackett Park
• Heartbeat by Lincoln Brewster
• You are my Vision by Rend Collective
• What Can Separate by Vineyard Worship
• You're Always With Us by Vineyard Worship
• Nothing Can Separate by Lucy Grimble + Matt Redman
• Nothing Can Separate by Austin Stone Worship
• Where I Go by Mission House
• Whatever May Come by Lakewood Music
• More Of You by Hillsong Young & Free
• In Christ Alone by Anthem Lights

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 38, 39. - For I am persuaded that no powers or circumstances whatever, external to ourselves, will ever separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, or consequently bar our attainment of our final inheritance. Additional Note on ver. 29, seq. The view given above of St. Paul's intention and meaning is by no means meant as ignoring the essential mystery of predestination, however regarded. Divine omnipotence combined with omniscience on the one hand, and human free-will on the other, seem indeed to human reason to be incompatible ideas; yet we are compelled to entertain both - the one on the ground, not only of scriptural teaching, but also of our conception of the Divine Being; the other on the ground, not only of our conception of Divine justice, but also of our own irresistible consciousness, and of scriptural teaching too. Such difficulty of reconciliation between two apparently necessary ideas is not peculiar to theology; philosophy has it too; and there are necessitarians among philosophers, as well as predestinarians among theologians, equally contradicting man's irresistible consciousness of having the power of choice. We can only regard the conflicting conceptions as partial apprehensions of a great truth which as a whole is beyond us. The apparent contradiction between them may be due to the failure of finite beings to comprehend infinity. They have been compared to two parallel straight lines, which, according to geometrical definition, can never meet, and yet, according to the higher mathematical theory, meet in infinity; or we may take the illustration of an asymptote, which from a finite point of view can never possibly touch a curve, and yet, in analytical geometry, is found to cross it at an infinite distance. For the practical purposes of life both ideas may be entertained; and it is only human attempts to reconcile them in theory, or to escape the difficulty by denying free-will altogether, that have given rise to the endless controversies on the subject. It is important to observe how St. Paul, though he distinctly intimates both conceptions (as he must needs do as a preacher of God's truth in all its aspects), and though his allusions to predestination have been made a main support of Calvinistic views, never really propounds a theory. When he alludes to the subject, it is with a practical purpose; and when (as in this chapter) he speaks of God's predestination of believers to glory, his purpose is to encourage them to persevere in holiness on the ground of their assurance of God's eternal purpose concerning them, the essential human conditions being all along supposed to be fulfilled (see also note on Hebrews 6:16-20, in 'Pulpit Commentary').

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) 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 which the warfare of the Christian was more particularly directed.Nor principalities.--Comp. Ephesians 6:12, "We wrestle . . . against principalities, against powers;" terms belonging to the Jewish enumeration of angels. The critical evidence is however absolutely decisive in separating "powers" from "principalities" in this instance and placing it after "things present, nor things to come." It would be better therefore to take it in a wider sense: "Agencies of every kind, personal or impersonal."