I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- BSB I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- NKJV I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
- NASB I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- NLT My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Quick answer
Paul has been crucified with Christ, so that Christ now lives in him, and he lives by faith in the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for him. This verse captures the believer's union with Christ.
Overview
One of Scripture's most treasured statements, this verse describes the believer's death to self and new life in union with the risen Christ. The Christian life is lived 'by faith in the Son of God,' resting on Christ's personal love and self-sacrifice. Here grace becomes deeply personal: 'who loved me, and gave himself up for me.'
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Cross-references · 40
- Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
- 2 Cor 5:15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
- Rom 6:4–6Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- Col 3:3–4For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- 2 Cor 4:10–11Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- Rom 6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
- Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
- 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- Rom 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- 1 Th 5:10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- Gal 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- 1 Pet 4:1–2Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
- John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
- Rom 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
- Rom 8:2–4For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
- Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
- Col 2:11–14In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
- 1 Jn 5:10–13He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
- John 14:19–20Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Col 1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- Eph 3:17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- Eph 2:4–5But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
- John 10:11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- Rom 1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
- Rom 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Gal 3:11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
- 2 Cor 13:3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
- Rev 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
- 1 Th 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- John 6:57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
- Rev 3:20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
- Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- 1 Jn 4:9–10In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
- 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
- John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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