Revelation 1:18

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'the living One. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.'

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  • Rom 6:9 : 9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this reason Christ died, returned to life, and rose again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
  • Rev 4:9 : 9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.
  • Rev 9:1 : 1 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open.
  • Isa 22:22 : 22 I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. What he opens, no one will shut; what he shuts, no one will open.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 18:46 : 46 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling out of their strongholds.
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 Blessed be the Lord! Day by day, He bears our burdens—our God is our salvation. Selah.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For though He was crucified in weakness, He lives by the power of God. Likewise, we are weak in Him, but we will live with Him by God’s power for your benefit.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
  • Rev 20:1-2 : 1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
  • Rev 20:14 : 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Matt 16:19 : 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
  • Rev 5:14 : 14 The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the one who lives forever and ever.

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