Revelation 1:18

New English Translation

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

Cross References

Job 19:25

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

Psalm 18:46

The Lord is alive! My protector is praiseworthy! The God who delivers me is exalted as king!

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

Isaiah 22:22

I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.

Matthew 11:23

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Matthew 16:19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Luke 24:5

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

John 14:19

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

Romans 6:9

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Colossians 3:3

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Hebrews 12:2

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 7:16

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Hebrews 7:25

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Revelation 10:6

and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will be no more delay!

Revelation 15:7

Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 2:8

“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:

Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

Revelation 20:14

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

Revelation 3:7

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:

Revelation 4:9

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 5:14

And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground and worshiped.

Revelation 6:8

So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill its population with the sword, famine, and disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

Revelation 9:1

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.