And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).”
Parallel translations
- WEB or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
- KJV Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
- BSB or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
- NKJV or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
- NASB or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
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Quick answer
Nor must anyone descend into the abyss to bring Christ up from the dead. His resurrection is already accomplished and need not be achieved by us.
Overview
Continuing his use of Deuteronomy 30:13, Paul says faith does not demand plunging into the depths to raise Christ. The point is that Christ has already been raised from the dead; salvation does not depend on our impossible labors but on what God has already done in the death and resurrection of his Son. Faith simply receives this finished work rather than striving to produce it.
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- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- 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.
- Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
- 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
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