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, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
• Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Rom 14:8–9For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
• Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Isa 22:22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
• Matt 16:19I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
• Heb 7:16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
• Rev 20:1–2I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 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.
• Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Rev 20:14Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
• Rev 4:9When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
• 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.
• John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
• Ps 18:46Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
• Col 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Rev 9:1The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
• Rev 5:14The four living creatures said, “Amen!” The elders fell down and worshiped.

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