³⁸I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us.^bWe can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces

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Romans 8:38: For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Footnotes

b 8:38 The last part of verse 39 (in Greek) has been moved to verse 38 to express the complex Greek sentence structure more clearly in English.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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