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100 Bible Verses about The Dead Shall Rise

Isaiah 26:19 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 97 helpful votes

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Corinthians 15:20 ESV / 71 helpful votes

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:23 ESV / 69 helpful votes

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Mark 12:26 ESV / 67 helpful votes

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

1 Corinthians 15:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:15 ESV / 66 helpful votes

We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

Luke 24:46 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 11:25-26 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Matthew 27:52 ESV / 57 helpful votes

The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,

Mark 12:23 ESV / 53 helpful votes

In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

Revelation 11:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

1 Corinthians 15:29 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

Romans 15:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”

Acts 26:23 ESV / 52 helpful votes

That the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

John 20:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

John 11:23 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Luke 11:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

Mark 12:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Mark 10:34 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”

Matthew 8:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV / 51 helpful votes

What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Revelation 20:13 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.

Revelation 20:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Ezekiel 37:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.

1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 47 helpful votes

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

1 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Romans 8:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...

Jude 1:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

Revelation 20:5-6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

1 Corinthians 15:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Matthew 25:31 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Matthew 24:30-31 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Revelation 20:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

John 5:29 ESV / 37 helpful votes

And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

John 5:28-29 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

John 14:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

John 14:1-3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 35 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Hosea 13:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes

I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

1 Corinthians 15:51-54 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Matthew 16:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

1 Corinthians 15:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Acts 24:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

John 5:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

Luke 14:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Titus 2:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Daniel 12:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Psalm 115:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

Revelation 14:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 31 helpful votes

So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:22-23 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Acts 2:34 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

John 11:11-14 ESV / 31 helpful votes

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

Matthew 24:31 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

John 11:25 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Revelation 20:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,

Revelation 11:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

1 Corinthians 15:17 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

James 2:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Revelation 20:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

1 Corinthians 15:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Ezekiel 37:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Habakkuk 2:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.

Isaiah 26:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.

Isaiah 24:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.

Proverbs 24:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For disaster will arise suddenly from them, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

Psalm 88:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

Job 20:27 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

2 Samuel 12:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”

Deuteronomy 33:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

Numbers 19:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

Genesis 23:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

John 5:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

1 Corinthians 15:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

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