39Nor 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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And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. …
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; …
We love him, because he first loved us.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-39)The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. Having largely set forth the mystery of God’s love to us in Christ, and the exceedingly great and precious privileges we enjoy by him, he concludes like an orator: What shall we then say to these things ? What use shall we make of all that has been said? He speaks as one…
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