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Acts 2:24

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Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:14Rank 1 from verse 24
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    14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

  2. 1 Peter 1:21Rank 2 from verse 24
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    21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

  3. Acts 2:32Rank 3 from verse 24
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    32This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

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    12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

  5. Romans 8:11Rank 5 from verse 24
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    11But 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.

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Acts 2:24

COMBINED MEANING

whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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raised

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of raise. Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.

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loosed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of loose, meaning to unbind, untie, detach, release, set free, relax, open, or end a restraint.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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holden

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Held, grasped, kept, restrained, confined, supported, sustained, observed, or celebrated.

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23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

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25For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

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