Bible Strands
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Roman church at the hinge between diagnosis (v. 10: body dead, spirit alive) and command (v. 12: do not live according to the flesh), asserting the Spirit's indwelling as the warrant for both.
The words — ἐγεῖραντος (egeirantos), aorist participle of ἐγείρω, "having raised up"; it is the same verb Paul uses for Christ's resurrection and here carries the entire argument: the same act that produced Christ's life is the guarantee of the believer's.
The thread — 2 Corinthians 4:14 states the same logic in compact form: the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us. Romans 6:4 grounds the pattern in baptismal union with Christ's death and resurrection; 2 Corinthians 4:11 adds the present-tense "death and life" dynamic that v. 11 resolves.
Why it lands — The verse removes the reader from the position of waiting and places them inside a completed divine act: resurrection is not a future possibility but the extension of what already happened to Christ, and the Spirit in them is the evidence that it is already underway.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Greek words
King James Version
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Cross-references
- 2 Corinthians 4:14 knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
- Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
- Ephesians 1:19 and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
- Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 6:14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
- Romans 8:2 For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- John 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
- Acts 2:24 But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him in its grip.
- Philippians 3:21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.