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Romans 6:8

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

KJV

εἰ δὲ ἀπεθάνομεν σὺν Χριστῷ, πιστεύομεν ὅτι καὶ συζήσομεν αὐτῷ·

Greek NT

Si autem mortui sumus cum Christo, credimus quia simul etiam vivemus cum Christo,

Vulgate

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

ASV

Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πιστεύω
pisteuo
verb · 241×
συζάω
suzao
verb · 3×
σύν
sun
preposition · 129×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Historic Christian voices

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

§1006"It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt."565 In a sense bodily death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of sin."566 For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.567
§1987The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to communicate to us "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ" and through Baptism:34 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion …
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210211.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 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 2:11 — It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
  • 2Tim 2:11 — It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
  • Col 2:12 — Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
  • Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
  • Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
  • 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.
  • Rom 6:3 — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
  • Rom 6:3 — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into 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 6:7 — For he that is dead is freed from sin.