Revelation 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Revelation 1:18 —

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Romans 6:9
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Hebrews 7:25
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Romans 14:8-9
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. …
Psalms 68:20
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-20)

We have now come to that glorious vision which the apostle had of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to deliver this revelation to him, where observe, I. The account given of the person who was favoured with this vision. He describes himself, 1. By his present state and condition. He was the brother and companion of these churches in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Christ. He was,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. Translate as Greek, “And THE Living One”: connected with last sentence, Re 1:17. and was--Greek, “and (yet) I became.” alive for evermore--Greek, “living unto the ages of ages”: not merely “I live,” but I have life, and am the source of it to My people. “To Him belongs absolute being, as contrasted with the relative being of the creature; others may share, He only hath immortality: being in es…