11It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. …
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)I. To encourage Timothy in suffering, the apostle puts him in mind of the resurrection of Christ (2 Tim. 2:8): Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel . This is the great proof of his divine mission, and therefore a great confirmation of the truth of the Christian religion; and the consideration of it should make us faithful to our Christi…
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