Romans 6:8
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
BSB
ASV
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
KJV
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
"But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with him, knowing that Christ rising from the dead dies no more, death shall no longer have dominion over him. For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he lives, he lives to God." In everything the Apostle has said above, he wished to show this: that if Christ died to sin, we too have died to sin along with him.
Christ was obedient to death: when he died, we might be said to die with him, as our dying to sin is an act of conformity both to the design and to the example of Christ's dying for sin. Baptism signifies and seals our union with Christ, our engrafting into Christ; so that we are dead with him, and engaged to have no more to do with sin than he had.
Conversion is the first resurrection from the death of sin to the life of righteousness; and this resurrection is conformable to Christ's resurrection.
1834–1892
THE apostles never traveled far from the simple facts of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, ascension, exaltation, and second advent. These things, of which they were the witnesses, constituted the staple of all their discourses. Newton has very properly said that the two pillars of our religion are, the work of Christ for us, and his work in us by the Holy Spirit.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
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In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
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2 Corinthians 13:4For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.
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For 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,
We 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…
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
