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Revelation 1:18

WEB

18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

KJV

18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

BSB

18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

FBV

18the living one. I was dead, but look! Now I am alive for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and the grave.

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Extra References

Romans 6:9

9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!


Hebrews 7:25

25Therefore 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.


Psalms 68:20

20God is to us a God of deliverance. To GOD, [+] the Lord, belongs escape from death.


Romans 14:8-9

8For 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 Lords. 9For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.


Isaiah 22:22

22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.


Revelation 3:7

7To 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:


Matthew 16:19

19I 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.”


Revelation 20:1-2

1I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth,[+] and bound him for a thousand years,


Hebrews 12:2

2looking 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.


Hebrews 7:16

16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;