that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
Parallel translations
- WEB that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
- KJV That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
- BSB I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
- NASB that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
- NLT I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,
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Paul's aim is to know Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, conformed to His death. Knowing Christ includes sharing both His power and His suffering.
Overview
Having received Christ's righteousness, Paul longs to know Christ ever more deeply and personally. This knowledge embraces resurrection power for living and fellowship in suffering that conforms him to Christ's death. The Christian life follows the pattern of cross then resurrection, suffering now and glory to come.
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Cross-references · 30
- Gal 2:20I 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.
- 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
- 2 Tim 2:11–12This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
- Rom 8:17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Rom 6:3–11Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- Eph 1:19–21and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- 1 Pet 4:13–14But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
- 1 Jn 2:3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
- Phil 3:8Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- 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.
- Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
- 2 Cor 1:5For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 2 Cor 4:10–13always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
- Rom 8:10–11If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 1 Jn 2:5But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- Col 2:13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
- 1 Cor 15:21–23For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
- Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- John 5:21–29For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- 2 Cor 1:10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- Eph 4:13until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
- John 10:18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
- Matt 20:23He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
- Acts 2:31–38he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
- 1 Th 4:14–15For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
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