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2 Timothy 2:11

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

KJV

Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἰ γὰρ συναπεθάνομεν, καὶ συζήσομεν·

Greek NT

Fidelis sermo : nam si commortui sumus, et convivemus :

Vulgate

Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

ASV

A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
πιστός
pistos
adjective · 67×
συζάω
suzao
verb · 3×
συναποθνήσκω
sunapothnesko
verb · 3×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1010Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."574 "The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him.575 What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's gr…
§1499"By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to the suffering and glorified Lord, that he may raise them up and save them. and indeed she exhorts them to contribute to the good of the People of God by freely uniting themselves to the Passion and death of Christ."97
§2641"[Address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart."124 Like the inspired writers of the New Testament, the first Christian communities read the Book of Psalms in a new way, singing in it the mystery of Christ. In the newness of the Spirit, they also composed hymns and canticles in the light of the unheard -…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
  • 1Thess 4:17 — Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
  • 1Thess 5:10 — Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • 1Tim 1:15 — 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.
  • 1Tim 1:15 — 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.
  • 1Tim 3:1 — This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
  • 2Cor 4:10 — Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
  • 2Cor 4:10 — Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
  • 2Cor 13:4 — For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
  • 2Cor 13:4 — For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
  • 2Tim 1:8 — Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
  • Acts 14:22 — Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
  • Dan 7:18 — But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • John 14:19 — Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
  • Mark 8:35 — For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
  • Matt 20:23 — And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be giv
  • Phil 1:28 — And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
  • Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
  • Rom 6:5 — For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
  • Rom 6:8 — Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
  • Rom 6:8 — Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
  • Rom 8:30 — Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
  • Titus 3:8 — This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto