For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Parallel translations
- KJV For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
- BSB For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.
- ESV For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
- NKJV For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- NASB For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- NLT Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.
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- Phil 3:10–11that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
- Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
- 2 Cor 4:10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Rom 6:8–12But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
- 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.
- Eph 2:5–6even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- Isa 5:2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
- Matt 15:13But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
- Ps 92:13They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- John 12:24Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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