Revelation 20:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

These people are the first to be raised to life, and they are especially blessed and holy. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and Christ and will rule with them for a thousand years. No other dead people were raised to life until a thousand years later.

Cross References

Luke 14:14

They cannot pay you back. But God will bless you and reward you when his people rise from death.

Romans 11:15

When Israel rejected God, the rest of the people in the world were able to turn to him. So when God makes friends with Israel, it will be like bringing the dead back to life.

Philippians 3:11

so that somehow I also may be raised to life.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

With a loud command and with the shout of the chief angel and a blast of God's trumpet, the Lord will return from heaven. Then those who had faith in Christ before they died will be raised to life.

Revelation 11:11

But three and a half days later, God will breathe life into their bodies. They will stand up, and everyone who sees them will be terrified.

Revelation 11:15

At the sound of the seventh trumpet, loud voices were heard in heaven. They said, “Now the kingdom of this world belongs to our Lord and to his Chosen One! And he will rule for ever and ever!”