knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
Parallel translations
- KJV Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
- BSB For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
- NKJV knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
- NASB knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
- NLT We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.
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Quick answer
The risen Christ will never die again; death has lost all power over Him. His permanent victory over death secures ours.
Overview
Christ's resurrection is not a return to mortal life but entrance into a death-proof, indestructible life. Because death has no more dominion over Him, those united to Him share in His unending triumph. This guarantees the believer's hope rests on an unchangeable foundation.
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Cross-references · 9
- Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- 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.
- Acts 2:24–28whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Heb 10:12–13but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Ps 16:9–11Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
- Heb 2:14–15Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
- Rom 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
- Heb 7:16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
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