¹⁸ and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

²⁵ whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

⁸ for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

⁹ for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

⁹ and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,

¹⁶ who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

¹ And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

²² And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.

²⁵ That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

¹⁴ and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire -- this `is' the second death;

¹ And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,

² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

³ who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

⁴⁶ Jehovah liveth -- and blessed `is' my rock, And exalted is the God of my salvation.

²⁰ God Himself `is' to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

¹⁹ yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

⁴ for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

¹⁹ and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'

³ for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

¹⁴ and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.