Bible Verses About Paradise And The Afterlife

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Clearest Bible text naming paradise

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.

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

Shows first resurrection language

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.

Resurrection to life and shame

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Dead in Hades delivered up for judgment

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Used in later discussions of the dead and spirit life

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Dead know nothing

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Death and Hades thrown into lake of fire

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Blessed dead resting until final reward

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Judgment scene often tied to afterlife teaching

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Direct contrast of punishment and life eternal

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Luke's Hades torment scene

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

Union with Christ after death

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

New creation background for final hope

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

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Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

First resurrection and reign with Christ

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

Coming with Christ after falling asleep

They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

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Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

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He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

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For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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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.

Resurrection of both just and unjust

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.

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And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

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

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Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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