Bible Verses About The Phoenix And Resurrection Imagery

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Direct statement that Christ's resurrection entails resurrection of the dead

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Core Bible passage on resurrection body

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

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And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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

Resurrection aspiration text, but weakly matched and less central

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

Union with Christ in resurrection like his

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

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Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

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And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

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They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

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I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

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And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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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.

General resurrection of just and unjust

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Christ rose according to the Scriptures

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Christ as firstfruits of those who sleep

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

Resurrection contrasts sowing and raising

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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Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

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Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

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And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Image of the earthy and heavenly

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

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Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

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Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

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They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

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Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

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