Revelation 1:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

I am he who lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

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  • Rom 6:9 : 9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this reason Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
  • Rev 4:9 : 9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 Who is made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
  • Rev 9:1 : 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth, and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens:
  • Isa 22:22 : 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at last on the earth;
  • Ps 18:46 : 46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died: 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He lives 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.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Rev 20:1-2 : 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
  • Rev 20:14 : 14 And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Matt 16:19 : 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and 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 Then the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.

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