Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.