2 Timothy 2:11 This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

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New International Version
Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him;

New Living Translation
This is a trustworthy saying: If we die with him, we will also live with him.

English Standard Version
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

Berean Standard Bible
This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

Berean Literal Bible
Trustworthy is the saying: For if we have died together with Him, we will also live together with Him;

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

New King James Version
This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.

New American Standard Bible
The statement is trustworthy: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

NASB 1995
It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

NASB 1977
It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

Legacy Standard Bible
It is a trustworthy saying: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

Amplified Bible
This is a faithful and trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

Christian Standard Bible
This saying is trustworthy: For if we died with him, we will also live with him;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This saying is trustworthy: For if we have died with Him, we will also live with Him;

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

Contemporary English Version
Here is a true message: "If we died with Christ, we will live with him.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is a statement that can be trusted: If we have died with him, we will live with him.

Good News Translation
This is a true saying: "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him.

International Standard Version
This saying is trustworthy: In dying with the Messiah, true life we gain.

Majority Standard Bible
This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

NET Bible
This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

New Heart English Bible
This saying is faithful: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is a faithful saying: For if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him:

Weymouth New Testament
Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

World English Bible
This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
The word [is] steadfast: For if we died together—we will also live together;

Berean Literal Bible
Trustworthy is the saying: For if we have died together with Him, we will also live together with Him;

Young's Literal Translation
Stedfast is the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;

Smith's Literal Translation
Faithful the word: For if we died together, we shall also live together:

Catholic Translations

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him.

New American Bible
This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him;

New Revised Standard Version
The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
This is a true saying: For if we die with him, we shall also live with him:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And this word is trustworthy, for if we have died with him, we shall also live with him,

NT Translations

Anderson New Testament
Assuredly true is the saying: If indeed we have died with him, we shall also live with him;

Godbey New Testament
It is a faithful saying: For if we die along with him, we will also live with him:

Haweis New Testament
It is a faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

Mace New Testament
it is an undoubted truth, that if we die for him, we shall live with him:

Weymouth New Testament
Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

Worrell New Testament
Faithful is the saying; for, if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

Worsley New Testament
It is an undoubted truth, if we are dead with Him, we shall also live with Him:

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Audio Bible

Context

Grace and Perseverance
…10For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 11This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;…

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Cross References

Romans 6:8
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

Colossians 3:3-4
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. / When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

1 Thessalonians 4:14
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. / And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.

1 John 5:11-12
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. / Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Luke 9:24
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Romans 8:17
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Ephesians 2:5-6
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! / And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 15:31
I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Treasury of Scripture

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

faithful.

1 Timothy 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.

1 Timothy 3:1
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

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 men.

For.

Romans 6:5,8
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: …

2 Corinthians 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.

Galatians 2:19,20
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God…

we shall.

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.

2 Corinthians 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.

1 Thessalonians 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.

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2 Timothy 2

1. Timothy is exhorted again to constancy and perseverance.
17. Of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
19. The foundation of the Lord is sure.
22. He is taught whereof to beware, and what to follow after.

Berean Study Bible

This is a trustworthy saying
The phrase "trustworthy saying" is a hallmark of the Pastoral Epistles, emphasizing the reliability and importance of the statement that follows. In Greek, "πιστὸς ὁ λόγος" (pistos ho logos) underscores the faithfulness and dependability of the message. Historically, this phrase may have been used to introduce early Christian creeds or hymns, which were memorized and recited by believers. It serves as a reminder of the foundational truths of the faith, encouraging believers to hold fast to these core doctrines amidst challenges.

If we died with Him
The conditional "if" introduces a statement of shared experience with Christ. The Greek word "συναπεθάνομεν" (synapethanomen) means "we died together with." This reflects the theological concept of union with Christ, particularly in His death. Romans 6:8 provides a parallel, where Paul explains that believers are united with Christ in His death through baptism, symbolizing the death of the old self. Historically, this concept was radical, as it called believers to a life of self-denial and sacrifice, mirroring Christ's own path.

we will also live with Him
The promise of living with Christ is a future hope grounded in the resurrection. The Greek "συζήσομεν" (syzēsomen) means "we will live together with." This points to the eschatological promise of eternal life, a central tenet of Christian hope. Theologically, it assures believers that just as they share in Christ's death, they will also share in His resurrection life. This promise would have been particularly comforting to early Christians facing persecution, as it affirmed that their present sufferings were not in vain but would lead to eternal glory with Christ.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(11) For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him.--The last sentence ended with the words "eternal glory"--the goal, the end of the salvation which is in Christ. This it is which the Apostle will help others to win, regardless of any suffering it may cost him; then, with his mind full of the thoughts of the "eternal glory," once more he addressed himself to Timothy. "Faithful is the saying, namely, if we be dead with him," &c. It was as though he said, "Do you not remember that well-known watchword of our own faith, so often repeated among us in our solemn assemblies when the brotherhood meet together?" Many have supposed, from the rhythmical character of the clauses of 2Timothy 2:11-13, that this "saying" was taken from some most ancient Christian hymns, composed and used in the very earliest days of the faith; but whether or no this be the case, there is high probability that the words formed part of a liturgy in common use in the days of Timothy. If not as a hymn--which seems, on the whole, the most likely supposition--we can well conceive them as part of the tapestry of a primitive Christian liturgy, woven in like the introductory sentences in our morning and evening prayer, or like the "comfortable words" of the Communion Service. The expression "If we be dead with Him"--more accurately, If we died with Him--is well explained by 1Corinthians 15:31 : "I die daily." The Apostle died when he embraced the lot of daily death. The meaning is still further illustrated in 2Corinthians 4:10, where we read how St. Paul and his companions were "always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus." "He and his faithful companions (was Timothy, to whom he was then writing, to be ranked in this blessed company? ) had given themselves up to a life that involved exposure to sufferings, bitter enmity, cruel persecutions, even death; but if we be thus dead with Him, what matters it? How can we fear even that last agony man can inflict on us--physical death?--for death with Him involves, surely, life with Him too: that life endless, fadeless, full of glory, we know He is now enjoying, in the possession of which I, Paul, and some of us have even seen Him, face to face, eye to eye. In that life of His we shall share; we shall be partakers in this life of His there, but only if we have shared in the life of suffering which was His life here."

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 11. - Faithful is the saying for it is a faithful saying, A.V.; died for be dead, A.V. Died; i.e. in baptism (Romans 6:8), as denoted by the aorist. But the death with Christ in baptism is conceived of as carrying with it, as a consequence, the daily death of which St. Paul speaks so often (Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 15:31; 2 Corinthians 4:10), as well as the death to sin.

Parallel Commentaries ...

Greek

[This is a] trustworthy
Πιστὸς (Pistos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4103: Trustworthy, faithful, believing. From peitho; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful.

saying:
λόγος (logos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

If
Εἰ (Ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

we died [with Him],
συναπεθάνομεν (synapethanomen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4880: To die together with. From sun and apothnesko; to decease in company with, or, similarly to.

we will also live [with Him];
συζήσομεν (syzēsomen)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4800: To live together with. From sun and zao; to continue to live in common with, i.e. Co-survive.

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NT Letters: 2 Timothy 2:11 This saying is faithful: For if we (2 Tim. 2Ti iiTi ii Tim)