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but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
2 Timothy 1:10 · World English Bible
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  • KJV But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
  • BSB And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
  • NKJV but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
  • NASB but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
  • NLT And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News.

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Quick answer

This grace has now been revealed through Christ's appearing; he abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Christ's coming makes God's eternal saving plan visible.

Overview

What was hidden in God's eternal purpose is now disclosed in the historical appearing of 'our Savior, Christ Jesus.' By his death and resurrection Christ has rendered death powerless and unveiled the promise of eternal life. The gospel is the means through which this victory over death is announced and received.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • 1 Jn 1:2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
  • Rom 16:26
  • Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
  • 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Heb 2:14–15Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
  • 1 Cor 15:26The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
  • Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • 1 Pet 1:20–21who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
  • 2 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
  • Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
  • John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
  • Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
  • John 5:24–29“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
  • Rev 22:1–2He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • Isa 60:2–3For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
  • Col 1:26–27the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
  • Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
  • Isa 43:3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
  • Rev 18:1After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
  • Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
  • Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
  • 1 Cor 15:53–55For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
  • Rom 5:17–18For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 25:7–8He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
  • 2 Pet 1:11For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • John 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
  • Titus 1:3–4but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
  • 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
  • Titus 3:4But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
  • 2 Cor 5:4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
  • Acts 13:23From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
  • Luke 2:11For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
  • Luke 11:36If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”
  • Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
  • Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • 2 Pet 3:2that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
  • Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

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Christ at the center

Christ Jesus 'abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel' — the risen Lord whose word and kingdom endure to the end.

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