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113 Bible verses about the Resurrection
Christ's redemption truly comes alive through His resurrection. Because Jesus died and God raised Him from the dead, we can experience a life of freedom today. Think about it: Jesus chose to die for you, knowing you're imperfect, so your sins could be forgiven through His blood. That's real love.
When you hear "resurrection," let it remind you of Jesus' sacrifice. Take a moment to reflect on what He did and be truly thankful in your heart for His grace. Remembering His suffering helps you appreciate everything He's done for you and understand how He can transform you from the inside out.
Through the power of His resurrection, everything is made new. The sick find healing, the oppressed find freedom, marriages are restored, and our spirits are revived in the name above all names: Jesus of Nazareth. Just as God raised Him up, He will raise us up too (1 Corinthians 6:14).
But now Christ has 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 also came through a man.For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.
But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.
He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”
For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,
But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.
Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.
Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.
“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voiceand will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)
Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!
You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!
because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)
This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.
beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.
Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!
and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)
he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”
and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you – not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.
And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.
He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.
Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you!”
He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
The Lord will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.The Lord will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the godly! For the one who promotes peace has a future.
Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”
who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich and his wealth multiplies!For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.
that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.
But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people.Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –
As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”