2 Timothy 2:11

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Here is a true statement: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
It is a true sayinge if we be deed wt him we also shall live with him.

Hebrew Names Version
This saying is faithful: For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

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

New Century Version
This teaching is true: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

Update Bible Version
Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall 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]:

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
It is a faithful saying: if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him:

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A trewe word, that if we ben deed togidere, also we schulen liue togidere;

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

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

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

Amplified Bible
This is a faithful and trustworthy saying: If we 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:

Bible in Basic English
This is a true saying: If we undergo death with him, then will we be living with him:

Complete Jewish Bible
Here is a statement you can trust: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.

Darby Translation
The word [is] faithful; for if we have died together with [him], we shall also live together;

International Standard Version
This saying is trustworthy:[fn]Romans 6:5,8; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Timothy 1:15;">[xr] In dying with Christ,him">[fn] true life we gain.we will live with him">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Faithful is the word: For if we be dead with him, With him also we shall live;

Murdock Translation
Faithful is the saying, For if we shall have died with him, we shall also live with him;

King James Version (1611)
It is a faithfull saying: for if we bee dead with him, wee shall also liue with him.

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

New Life Bible
These things are true. If we die with Him, we will live with Him also.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
It is a true saying, For if we be dead together with him, we also shall liue together with him.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Faithful, the saying - for, If we have died together, we shall also live together,

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is a faythfull saying: for yf we be dead with hym, we shall also lyue with hym:

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

Christian Standard Bible®
This saying is trustworthy:

Lexham English Bible
The saying is trustworthy: For if we died with him, we will also live with him;

Literal Translation
Faithful is the Word: for if we died with Him , we also shall live with Him ;

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is a true sayenge: Yf we be deed wt him, we shal lyue with him also:

Mace New Testament (1729)
it is an undoubted truth, that if we die for him, we shall live with him:

New English Translation
This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will 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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't forget that old cowboy saying, "Only those who die with him, live with him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

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

Contextual Overview

⁸ Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: ⁹ Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. ¹⁰ Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹ It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: ¹² If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: ¹³ If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

faithful: 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 Timothy 3:1, Titus 3:8

For: Romans 6:5, Romans 6:8, 2 Corinthians 4:10, Galatians 2:19, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:4

we shall: John 14:19, 2 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:10

Reciprocal: Daniel 7:18 - the saints Matthew 20:23 - Ye Mark 8:35 - will save Acts 14:22 - we Romans 8:30 - he justified 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye did 1 Corinthians 10:13 - but Philippians 1:28 - but Philippians 3:10 - and the fellowship 2 Timothy 1:8 - be thou Revelation 19:9 - These

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

Genesis 10:29
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 25:18
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It is a faithful saying,.... This may refer either to what goes before, that all things, all reproaches and sufferings, through the ministration of the Gospel, are endured for the elects' sake; and that shall certainly obtain salvation in Christ, and eternal glory, to which they are predestinated: or to what follows, which being of moment and importance, and difficult to be believed, as that death led to life, and sufferings were the way to the kingdom; the apostle prefaces it in this manner, affirming the truth of it, that it was sure and certain, and to be believed, and depended on as such.

For if we be dead with him; with Christ, as all his people are, by virtue of union to him; they are dead with him, he and they being one, in a legal sense; when he died, they died with him; being crucified with him, as their head and representative, their old man, their sins, were also crucified with him, being imputed to him, and laid upon him; and through the efficacy of his death, they became dead to sin, both to its damning and governing power, and so are planted together in the likeness of his death; so that as he died unto sin once, and lives again to die no more, they die unto sin, and are alive to God, and shall live for ever. Moreover, this, agreeably to what follows, may be understood of the saints dying for Christ's sake, and the Gospel, whereby they are conformed unto him, and feel the fellowship of his sufferings, and so may be said to be dead with him: and such may assure themselves of the truth of what follows,

we shall also live with him; as many as were crucified with Christ, and buried with him, rose with him from the dead, and were justified in him, as their head and representative; the free gift came on them to justification of life; and they that are dead to sin, through the efficacy of his death, live a life of sanctification, which they have from him, and is maintained and supported by him, and is to his glory; and they live a life of communion with him, in whose favour is life; and though they die, and for his sake, they shall rise again; and because he lives, they shall live also, even a life of glory, happiness, and endless pleasure. And this is part of the faithful saying, and to be believed, and is believed by the saints: see Romans 6:8. Moreover, since the word "him" is not in the original text, and the elect are spoken of in the preceding verse, what if the sense should be this, this is true doctrine, and a certain matter of fact, if we and the elect of God die together in the same cause, and for the sake of Christ, and the Gospel, we shall live together in everlasting bliss and glory?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is a faithful saying - Or, rather, that which he was about to say was worthy of entire credence and profound attention; see the notes at 1 Timothy 1:15. The object is to encourage Timothy to bear trials by the hope of salvation.

For if we be dead with him - see the notes at Romans 6:8.

We shall also live with him - This was a sort of maxim, or a settled point, which is often referred to in the Bible; see the Romans 6:3-5 notes; John 11:25 note; 1 Thessalonians 4:14 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. If we be dead with him — That is: As surely as Christ rose again from the dead, so surely shall we rise again; and if we die for him, we shall surely live again with him. This, says the apostle, is πιστος ο λογος, a true doctrine. This is properly the import of the word; and we need not seek, as Bp. Tillotson and many others have done, for some saying of Christ which the apostle is supposed to be here quoting, and which he learned from tradition.