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And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
Romans 8:11 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
  • KJV But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • NKJV But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
  • NASB But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
  • NLT The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

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Quick answer

The Spirit who raised Jesus will also give resurrection life to believers' mortal bodies. The same power that raised Christ guarantees our future bodily resurrection.

Overview

Paul grounds the hope of resurrection in the indwelling Spirit, identified as the Spirit of the Father who raised Jesus. Because that life-giving Spirit dwells in believers, their mortal bodies will likewise be raised. This is a Trinitarian promise that future resurrection is as certain as Christ's own.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 30

  • 2 Cor 4:14knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
  • Rom 6:4–5We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
  • 2 Cor 4:11For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
  • Eph 1:19–20and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
  • Rom 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
  • 1 Cor 6:14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
  • Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
  • Phil 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
  • Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
  • 1 Cor 15:20–22But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
  • Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
  • John 7:38–39Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
  • Ezek 37:14I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
  • Acts 2:32–33God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
  • Rev 11:11But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
  • 1 Th 4:14–17For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
  • Rom 4:24–25but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
  • John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
  • 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
  • 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
  • 1 Cor 15:51–57Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
  • John 5:28–29Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
  • Rev 20:11–13Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
  • Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • 1 Cor 15:16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
  • Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  • Rom 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
  • Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
  • 2 Cor 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

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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.

How Romans 8:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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