Romans 8:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ ἐγείραντος Ἰησοῦν ἐκ νεκρῶν οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας τὸν Χριστὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ζωοποιήσει καὶ τὰ θνητὰ σώματα ὑμῶν, διὰ τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος αὐτοῦ Πνεύματος ἐν ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

Ei de the Pneuma tou egeirantos Iēsoun ek nekrōn oikei in you, the one egeiras ton Christon ek nekrōn zōopoiēsei also the thnēta sōmata of you, through the enoikountos autou Pneumatos in you.

Grammar Details

• *Ei*: conditional particle - if
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *Pneuma*: nominative neuter singular - Spirit
• *tou egeirantos*: genitive masculine singular aorist active participle - of the one having raised
• *Iēsoun*: accusative masculine singular - Jesus
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *nekrōn*: genitive masculine plural - dead ones
• *oikei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - dwells/lives
• *egeiras*: aorist active participle nominative masculine singular - having raised
• *ton Christon*: accusative masculine singular - Christ
• *zōopoiēsei*: future active indicative 3rd person singular - will give life
• *thnēta*: accusative neuter plural - mortal
• *sōmata*: accusative neuter plural - bodies
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through/by means of
• *tou enoikountos*: genitive neuter singular present active participle - of the indwelling
• *autou*: genitive masculine 3rd person singular - his
• *Pneumatos*: genitive neuter singular - Spirit

Word Meanings

• *egeirantos*: having raised/resurrected [completed action]
• *oikei*: dwells/lives/inhabits
• *egeiras*: having raised/resurrected [completed action]
• *zōopoiēsei*: will give life to/will make alive/will vivify [future action]
• *thnēta*: mortal/subject to death
• *enoikountos*: indwelling/living in/residing in [ongoing action]

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:9 : 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.
• 2 Cor 4:11 : 11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
• 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.
• John 5:21 : 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
• Acts 2:24 : 24 But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.
• 1 Cor 15:20-22 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
• Eph 1:19-20 : 19 and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength. 20 This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
• Phil 3:21 : 21 who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
• 1 Cor 6:14 : 14 Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.
• John 7:38-39 : 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
• Acts 2:32-33 : 32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
• Rom 4:24-25 : 24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
• Rom 6:4-5 : 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
• John 5:28-29 : 28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
• Ezek 37:14 : 14 I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the LORD– I have spoken and I will act, declares the LORD.’”
• John 14:17 : 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
• 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
• 1 Cor 15:51-57 : 51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed– 52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
• 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
• 1 Thess 4:14-17 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Benediction and Conclusion Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
• Rev 11:11 : 11 But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them.
• Rev 20:11-13 : 11 The Great White Throne Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 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!