Romans 6:9
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
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Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him--Though Christ's death was in the most absolute sense a voluntary act (Joh 10:17-18; Act 2:24), that voluntary surrender gave death such rightful "dominion over Him" as dissolved its dominion over us. But this once past, "death hath," even in that sense, "dominion over Him no more."
Open source ↗The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of that sweet flower, and turn that grace of God into wantonness and licentiousness, he, with a like zeal, copiousness of expression, and cogency of argument, presses the absolute necessity of sanctification and a holy life, as the inseparable fruit and companion of justification; for, wherever Jesus Christ is made of God unto any soul righteousness, he is made of God unto that soul sanctification, Co1 1:30. The water and the blood came streaming together out of the pierced side of the dying Jesus. And what God hath thus joined together let not us dare to put asunder.
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.