But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- BSB But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
- NKJV But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NASB but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NLT But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Quick answer
Thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It matters because the conquest of sin and death is God's gift in Christ.
Overview
Paul bursts into thanksgiving: the victory over sin, law, and death is a gift of God through Jesus Christ. Believers do not achieve this triumph but receive it. This verse gathers the chapter's hope into grateful praise centered on the risen Lord.
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Cross-references · 16
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- Rom 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
- 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
- Prov 21:31The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
- Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
- John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
- 2 Cor 9:15Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
- Ps 98:1O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
- Rev 15:2–3And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
- Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
- Eph 5:20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Cor 15:51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
- 1 Chr 22:11Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
- 2 Cor 1:11Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
- 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
- Acts 27:35And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
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