1 Corinthians 15:20

Modern English Version

But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Cross References

Acts 2:24

whom God raised up by loosening the pull of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Acts 26:23

that the Christ must suffer, that He would be the first who would rise from the dead, and would announce light to His own people and to the Gentiles.”

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, those who are Christ’s at His coming.

1 Corinthians 15:6

Then He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain to this present time, though some have passed away.

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things He may have the preeminence.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow them.”