Verse of the Day for February 29

Paul ends the chapter with a list, and the list is not rhetorical. Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword — he had experienced most of them personally by the time he wrote it.

Nor 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.

He goes through the categories methodically. Death and life. Angels and principalities. Things present and things to come. Height and depth. Then, having run out, he adds a catch-all: nor any other creature.

That last phrase exists because Paul knew his list could not be complete. Somebody would eventually face a thing he had not named, and he closes the gap in advance.

Note also what is absent. He never says these things will not happen. Verse thirty-six quotes a psalm about being killed all the day long.

The promise is not protection from the list. It is that nothing on the list, named or unnamed, can get between you and the love.

A month about love ends here on purpose. Everything else in February can be lost — relationships, reputation, the way you feel about yourself.

The one thing on this page that cannot be taken is the last verse of Romans 8.