Revelation 1:18

Christ is the living one who died, now lives forever, and holds the keys of Death and Hades. It matters because the risen Lord has conquered death and rules over it for his people.

Cross-references · 22

• Rom 6:9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
• Heb 7:25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Rom 14:8–9For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
• Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Rev 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• Isa 22:22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
• Matt 16:19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
• Heb 7:16Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
• Rev 20:1–2And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
• Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Gal 2:20I 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.
• Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Job 19:25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• Rev 20:14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
• Rev 4:9And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
• 2 Cor 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
• John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
• Ps 18:46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
• Col 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Rev 9:1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
• Rev 5:14And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

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