Bible Verses About Death And Resurrection Hope

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Clear Bible statement of resurrection hope for just and unjust

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Direct passage: Jesus is the resurrection and the life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Direct Bible passage on union in Christ's resurrection

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Direct Bible passage on resurrection of the dead

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Direct passage naming the first resurrection.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

Direct passage on hearing the Son of God and living.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Direct passage about living with Christ after dying with him.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Direct passage that Christ died and rose to be Lord of dead and living.

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

Direct passage about all in the graves hearing his voice.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Direct Bible command about grief and hope

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Old Testament passage used for rising from dust

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Defines hope as future expectation

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Speaks of hope laid up in heaven

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Grounds hope in Jesus' resurrection from the dead

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Shows Christ's risen life defeats death

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Makes faith and hope rest on the God who raised Jesus

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Paul’s desire to attain resurrection, but the excerpt is too thin to stand alone.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Gospel account of raised saints' bodies

But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Links Jesus' death and rising to the hope of believers

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Explicit prediction of awakening from dust

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

Image of graves opening and people being raised

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.