Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.
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;
- 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.
- 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,
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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
Cross-references · 12
- 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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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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