Revelation 1:18
Good News Translation
I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Contemporary English Version
and the living one. I died, but now I am alive forever, and I have the keys to death and the world of the dead.

New American Bible
the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

that liveth.

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

Psalm 18:46 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

John 14:19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

Romans 6:9 Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For although 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 towards you.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 3:3 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 7:25 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

was.

Romans 14:8,9 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high:

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

I am alive.

Revelation 4:9 And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever:

Revelation 5:14 And the four living creatures said: Amen. And the four and twenty ancients fell down on their faces and adored him that liveth for ever and ever.

Hebrews 7:16,25 Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life. . . .

the keys.

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 20:1,2,14 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. . . .

Psalm 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Isaiah 22:22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Matthew 16:19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Context
John's Vision on Patmos
17And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last, 18And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell. 19Write therefore the things which thou hast seen: and which are: and which must be done hereafter.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

Matthew 11:23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

Matthew 16:19
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Luke 24:5
And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead?

John 11:25
Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

Romans 6:9
Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.

Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Revelation 2:8
And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

Revelation 4:9
And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever:

Revelation 6:8
And behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death. And hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 10:6
And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That time shall be no longer.

Revelation 15:7
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.

Revelation 20:14
And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death.

Revelation 1:17
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