Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Parallel translations
- WEB But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
- BSB Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
- NKJV Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
- NASB Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
- NLT And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.
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Quick answer
Because we died with Christ, we trust that we will also live with Him. Sharing His death secures our sharing of His life.
Overview
Paul moves from the believer's death with Christ to the confident expectation of shared life. This life is both the present spiritual life of the new creation and the future life of resurrection glory. Faith ('we believe') lays hold of this promise rooted entirely in union with the risen Lord.
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Cross-references · 7
- 2 Tim 2:11–12It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
- Col 3:3–4For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- 2 Cor 4:10–14Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- 2 Cor 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Rom 6:3–5Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
- 1 Th 4:14–17For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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