Revelation 1:18

World English Bible (2000)

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

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  • Rom 6:9 : 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
  • Rev 4:9 : 9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
  • Rev 9:1 : 1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
  • Isa 22:22 : 22 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 18:46 : 46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Rev 20:1-2 : 1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
  • Rev 20:14 : 14 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 died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Matt 16:19 : 19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and 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 The four living creatures said, "Amen!" The elders fell down and worshiped.

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