Scripture Folios
Your Dead Will Live
Job 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes. Chapter Related Job 19:25–26 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. Chapter Related Psalm 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. Chapter Related Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead. Chapter Related Hosea 6:2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. Chapter Related Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes. Chapter Related Daniel 12:2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt. Chapter Related
I Am the Resurrection and the Life
Mark 8:31 Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again. Chapter Related John 2:19–21 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. Chapter Related John 5:28–29 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves 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. Chapter Related John 11:23–26 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her. Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” Chapter Related John 11:43–44 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them. Chapter Related
He Has Risen
Matthew 28:5–6 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.” Chapter Related Luke 24:38–39 “Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” Chapter Related John 20:27–28 Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!” Chapter Related 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. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:3–6 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve. After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Chapter Related Acts 17:31–32 “For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.” When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.” Chapter Related
Christ the Firstfruits
1 Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:20–22 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:42–44 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:54–55 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” Chapter Related Philippians 3:20–21 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body. Chapter Related
The Power of His Resurrection
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. Chapter Related 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. Chapter Related Philippians 3:10–11 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Chapter Related Acts 4:33 With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all. Chapter Related Revelation 1:17–18 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.” Chapter Related
Job asks whether a man who dies will live again, and then says it anyway: “I know that my Redeemer lives,” and in my flesh I will see God. The psalmist trusts that God will not let his Holy One see decay. Isaiah tells those who dwell in the dust to wake and sing, Hosea speaks of the third day and asks, “Where, O Death, are your plagues?” and Daniel sees the sleepers in the dust awake. Jesus says he will be killed and after three days rise again, that the temple of his body will be raised in three days, and that all who are in their graves will hear his voice. At Lazarus’s tomb he tells Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life,” and calls a dead man out. Then his own tomb is empty: “He is not here; He has risen, just as He said!” He shows his hands and feet, tells Thomas to touch his side, and appears to more than five hundred people at once. In Athens some mocked. Paul stakes everything on it: if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. But he has been raised, the firstfruits, and what is sown perishable is raised imperishable, until death is swallowed up in victory. The same power is at work now. We walk in newness of life, and the Spirit who raised Jesus gives life to our mortal bodies. Paul wants to know the power of his resurrection, and the one John sees says, “I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever!”