That reference, is taken in light of the Bible, in the words of Jesus in more than one occasion, for His Words are in me and alive. For I have read every word in the Bible, I mean every word, The number of times a cannot remember. "So greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world". The Word of God is the Son of God and the Son of God is Jesus Christ.
So since He is in me, His Words are apart of me, then there is no way I can deny Him in anyway. And these are His words and not mine.
(John 11:25,25).
…25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though he dies. 26
And everyone who
lives and believes in Me will never die.Do you believe this?”
(Luke 20).
…37Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38
He is not the God of the dead butof the living, for to Him all are alive.”39Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, You have spoken well!”…
And I do know, you understands "English Syntax"! So that verse does not need explanation,
John Calvin, is not dead, talk to him, he can explain himself better than I. For we are from the tribe of the 1st born. "A Peculiar People" that the world cannot or have the ability to understand, even our language is different.
Shalom.