KJV King James Version
[It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]:
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2 Timothy 2:11
[It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
WEB World English Bible
This saying is faithful: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
ASV American Standard Version
Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Stedfast is the word: For if we died together—we also shall live together;
Surrounding context — 2 Timothy 2
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 [It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
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Romans 6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:Colossians 3:3-4For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.Romans 6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:1 Timothy 1:15This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.2 Corinthians 4:10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.Galatians 2:19-20For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.2 Corinthians 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.1 Thessalonians 5:10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.Titus 3:8[This is] a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.1 Thessalonians 4:17Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.1 Timothy 3:1This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
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