1 Corinthians 15:18

Plain English Version

And if you reckon that God never makes dead people alive again, you are saying that the Christians that died are now lost and gone for ever.

Cross References

Acts 7:60

Then he went down on to his knees, and he shouted, “Jesus, don’t blame these men for doing this bad thing.” And after he said that, he died.

1 Corinthians 15:6

After that, he showed himself to more than 500 of his followers at the same time. Most of those 500 people are still alive, but some of them have died.

1 Thessalonians 4:15

You see, this is the message that Jesus, our leader, told us, and we tell this same message to you. Those of us that are still alive when Jesus comes back, we will not go and meet him before the Christians that already died.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

It will happen like this. Our leader, Jesus himself, will come down from heaven, and while he is coming, everyone will hear him call out, and they will hear the voice of the boss angel, and they will hear the sound of God’s trumpet. Then, first of all, those people that belonged to Jesus Christ and already died, they will come back to life.