What cannot separate us from the love of God?
Neither principalities nor powers, nor life, nor death can separate us from the love of God. This assurance closes Romans chapter 8, and Romans 12:1 begins with 'therefore,' linking the believer's security in God's love to what Paul just finished in chapter 8.
Les explains that Romans chapter 8 ends with great verses of assurance: Christ died for us, God is for us, no one can be against us, and neither principalities nor powers can keep us from the love of God. He then shows how Romans 12:1 provides the other side of a parenthesis, beginning with 'I beseech you therefore.' The 'therefore' points back to what Paul just finished in chapter 8, so that neither principalities nor powers nor life nor death can separate us from the love of God.
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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Why can nothing separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus?
Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus because we were already His before anything was ever created.
Where is the love of God shown that nothing can separate us from?
The love of God that nothing in all creation can separate us from is shown in Christ Jesus our Lord.