For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Parallel translations
- WEB For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part 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.
- 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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Quick answer
If we are joined to Christ in a death like His, we will certainly share in His resurrection. Union with Christ guarantees both present new life and future bodily resurrection.
Overview
Paul presses the logic of union: those grafted into Christ's death are inseparably linked to His resurrection. This assures believers of final resurrection while also grounding present moral renewal. The certainty rests not on our effort but on our being 'united with him.'
Cross-references & the web
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- Phil 3:10–11That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
- Col 2:12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
- 2 Cor 4:10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- Rom 6:8–12Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
- Col 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Eph 2:5–6Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
- John 15:1–8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- Isa 5:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
- Matt 15:13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
- Ps 92:13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- John 12:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
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Christ at the center
Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.
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