⁹ because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead,^(A) will not die again. Death no longer rules over him.^(B)

⁹ Christ died and returned to life^(A) for this: that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.^(B)

The Letter to Smyrna

⁸ “Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: Thus says the First and the Last,^(A) the one who was dead and came to life:

⁶ He swore by the one who lives forever and ever,^(A) who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay,