Revelation 1:18

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and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

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  • Rom 6:9 : 9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 So 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 And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
  • Rev 9:1 : 1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:
  • Isa 22:22 : 22 I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 18:46 : 46 The LORD is alive! My protector is praiseworthy! The God who delivers me is exalted as king!
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Rev 20:1-2 : 1 The Thousand Year Reign Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain. 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years.
  • Rev 20:14 : 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death– the lake of fire.
  • 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 have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
  • Rev 5:14 : 14 And the four living creatures were saying“Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground and worshiped.

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