and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter 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.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—
And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
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