So man
lieth down,
and riseth not:
till the heavens
be no more,
they shall not awake,
nor be raised
out of their sleep.
O that thou
wouldest hide me
in the grave,
that thou
wouldest keep me
secret,
until thy wrath
be past,
that thou
wouldest appoint me
a set time,
and remember me!
If a man die,
shall
he live again?
all the days
of my appointed
time
will
I wait,
till my change come.
Thou shalt call,
and
I will answer thee:
thou wilt have
a desire
to the work
of thine hands.
For I
know
that my redeemer
liveth,
and
that he
shall stand
at the latter day
upon the earth:
And
though after my skin worms
destroy this body,
yet in my flesh
shall
I see God:
Whom
I shall see
for myself,
and mine
eyes
shall behold,
and not another;
though my reins
be consumed within me.
Therefore my heart
is glad,
and my glory rejoiceth:
my flesh
also shall rest
in hope.
For thou
wilt not leave
my soul in hell;
neither wilt
thou suffer
thine Holy One
to see corruption.
As for me,
I will behold
thy face
in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied,
when I awake,
with thy likeness.
But God
will redeem
my soul
from the power
of the grave:
for he
shall receive me.
Selah.
He will swallow up death
in victory;
and the Lord GOD
will wipe away
tears from
off all faces;
and
the rebuke
of his people
shall
he take away from
off all
the earth:
for the LORD
hath spoken it.
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.
The hand
of the LORD
was upon me,
and carried
me out
in the spirit
of the LORD,
and set me down
in the midst
of the valley
which was full of bones,
And caused me
to pass
by them round about:
and,
behold,
there were very many
in the open valley;
and,
lo,
they were very dry.
And
he said unto me,
Son of man,
can these bones live?
And I answered,
O Lord GOD,
thou knowest.
Again
he said unto me,
Prophesy
upon these bones,
and
say unto them,
O ye
dry bones,
hear the word
of the LORD.
Thus
saith
the Lord GOD
unto these bones;
Behold,
I will cause
breath
to enter
into you,
and
ye shall live:
And
I will lay sinews
upon you,
and will bring
up flesh
upon you,
and cover you
with skin,
and put breath
in you,
and
ye shall live;
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
So I
prophesied as I
was commanded:
and as I prophesied,
there was
a noise,
and behold
a shaking,
and the bones
came together,
bone
to his bone.
And
when I beheld,
lo,
the sinews
and the flesh
came up upon them,
and the skin
covered them above:
but there was no breath
in them.
Then said
he unto me,
Prophesy
unto the wind,
prophesy,
son of man,
and say
to the wind,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Come from the four winds,
O breath,
and breathe
upon these slain,
that they
may live.
So I
prophesied as he
commanded me,
and the breath
came into them,
and they lived,
and stood up
upon their feet,
an exceeding great army.
Then
he said unto me,
Son of man,
these bones
are the whole house
of Israel:
behold,
they say,
Our bones
are dried,
and our hope
is lost:
we are cut off
for our parts.
Therefore prophesy
and
say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold,
O my people,
I will open
your graves,
and cause you
to come up
out of your graves,
and bring you
into the land
of Israel.
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,
And shall put
my spirit in you,
and
ye shall live,
and
I shall place you
in your own land:
then shall
ye know
that I
the LORD
have spoken it,
and performed it,
saith the LORD.
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.
And
they that
be wise
shall shine
as the brightness
of the firmament;
and
they that turn many
to righteousness
as the stars
for ever and ever.
But go
thou thy way till
the end be:
for thou
shalt rest,
and stand
in thy lot
at the end
of the days.
I will ransom them
from the power
of the grave;
I will redeem them
from death:
O death,
I will be
thy plagues;
O grave,
I will be
thy destruction:
repentance
shall be
hid from mine eyes.
The same day
came
to him the Sadducees,
which say that
there is
no resurrection,
and asked him,
Saying,
Master,
Moses said,
If a man die,
having
no children,
his brother
shall marry
his wife,
and raise
up seed
unto his brother.
Now there were
with us seven brethren:
and the first,
when
he had married
a wife,
deceased,
and,
having
no issue,
left his wife
unto his brother:
Likewise the second also,
and the third,
unto the seventh.
And last of all
the woman died also.
Therefore in the resurrection
whose wife
shall
she be
of the seven?
for they
all had her.
Jesus
answered
and
said unto them,
Ye do err,
not knowing
the scriptures,
nor the power
of God.
For in the resurrection
they neither marry,
nor are given
in marriage,
but are as the angels
of God
in heaven.
But as touching
the resurrection
of the dead,
have
ye not read
that
which was spoken
unto you
by God,
saying,
I am the God
of Abraham,
and the God
of Isaac,
and the God
of Jacob?
God is not the God
of the dead,
but of the living.
And he
shall send
his angels
with a great sound
of a trumpet,
and
they shall gather
together his elect
from the four winds,
from one end
of heaven
to the other.
Then shall
the kingdom
of heaven
be likened
unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps,
and went forth
to meet the bridegroom.
And five
of them were wise,
and five
were foolish.
They that
were foolish
took their lamps,
and took
no oil with them:
But the wise
took
oil
in their vessels
with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried,
they all slumbered
and slept.
And at midnight
there was
a cry made,
Behold,
the bridegroom cometh;
go ye
out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose,
and trimmed
their lamps.
And the foolish said
unto the wise,
Give us
of your oil;
for our lamps
are gone out.
But the wise answered,
saying,
Not so;
lest there be not enough
for us and you:
but go
ye rather to them
that sell,
and buy
for yourselves.
And
while they
went to buy,
the bridegroom came;
and they
that were ready
went in with him
to the marriage:
and the door
was shut.
Afterward came also
the other virgins,
saying,
Lord, Lord,
open to us.
But he
answered
and said,
Verily I
say unto you,
I know
you not.
Watch therefore,
for ye
know
neither the day
nor the hour
wherein the Son
of man cometh.
And the graves
were opened;
and many bodies
of the saints
which slept arose,
And came
out of the graves
after his resurrection,
and went into the holy city,
and appeared
unto many.
And
thou shalt be blessed;
for they
cannot recompense thee:
for thou
shalt be recompensed
at the resurrection
of the just.
But they which
shall be accounted worthy
to obtain that world,
and the resurrection
from the dead,
neither marry,
nor are given
in marriage:
Neither can
they die any more:
for they
are equal
unto the angels;
and are the children
of God,
being the children
of the resurrection.
Now
that the dead
are raised,
even
Moses
shewed
at the bush,
when
he calleth
the Lord
the God
of Abraham,
and the God
of Isaac,
and the God
of Jacob.
For he is not
a God
of the dead,
but of the living:
for all live unto him.
For as the Father
raiseth up the dead,
and quickeneth them;
even so
the Son
quickeneth whom
he will.
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.
Marvel not
at this:
for the hour
is coming,
in the which all
that
are in the graves
shall hear
his voice,
And
shall come forth;
they that
have done good,
unto the resurrection
of life;
and
they that
have done evil,
unto the resurrection
of damnation.
And this
is the Father's
will
which hath sent me,
that of all which
he hath given me
I should lose
nothing,
but should raise it up
again at the last day.
And this
is the will
of him that
sent me,
that every one
which seeth the Son,
and believeth
on him,
may have
everlasting life:
and I
will raise
him up
at the last day.
No man
can come to me,
except the Father
which hath sent me
draw him:
and I
will raise
him up
at the last day.
Whoso
eateth
my flesh,
and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life;
and I
will raise
him up
at the last day.
Jesus saith unto her,
Thy brother
shall rise again.
Martha
saith unto him,
I know that
he shall rise
again
in the resurrection
at the last day.
Jesus
said
unto her,
I am the resurrection,
and the life:
he that believeth in me,
though he
were dead,
yet shall
he live:
Yet a little while,
and the world
seeth me no more;
but ye
see me:
because
I live,
ye shall live also.
Therefore did
my heart rejoice,
and my tongue
was glad;
moreover also my flesh
shall rest
in hope:
Because
thou wilt not leave
my soul in hell,
neither wilt
thou suffer
thine Holy One
to see corruption.
Thou hast made
known
to me the ways
of life;
thou shalt make me
full of joy
with thy countenance.
Men and brethren,
let me
freely speak
unto you
of the patriarch David,
that he
is both dead
and buried,
and his sepulchre
is with us
unto this day.
Therefore being
a prophet,
and knowing
that God
had sworn
with an oath
to him,
that of the fruit
of his loins,
according to the flesh,
he would raise
up Christ to
sit
on his throne;
He seeing this
before spake of the resurrection
of Christ,
that his soul
was not left
in hell,
neither his flesh
did see corruption.
And as they
spake unto the people,
the priests,
and the captain
of the temple,
and the Sadducees,
came upon them,
Being grieved
that they
taught the people,
and preached
through Jesus
the resurrection
from the dead.
Then certain philosophers
of the Epicureans,
and
of the Stoicks,
encountered him.
And some said,
What
will
this babbler say?
other some,
He seemeth to be
a setter forth
of strange gods:
because
he preached
unto them Jesus,
and the resurrection.
And
when they
heard
of the resurrection
of the dead,
some mocked:
and others said,
We will hear thee
again of this matter.
But when Paul
perceived
that the one part
were Sadducees,
and the other Pharisees,
he cried out
in the council,
Men and brethren,
I am a Pharisee,
the son
of a Pharisee:
of the hope
and resurrection
of the dead
I am called in question.
For the Sadducees
say that
there is
no resurrection,
neither angel,
nor spirit:
but the Pharisees
confess both.
But this
I confess
unto thee,
that after the way which
they call heresy,
so worship
I the God
of my fathers,
believing all things which
are written
in the law
and in the prophets:
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.
And now
I stand
and am judged
for the hope
of the promise made
of God,
unto our fathers:
Unto which promise
our twelve tribes,
instantly serving God
day and night,
hope to come.
For which hope's sake,
king Agrippa,
I am accused
of the Jews.
Why should
it be thought
a thing incredible
with you,
that God
should raise
the dead?
Therefore it
is of faith,
that it
might be
by grace;
to the end
the promise
might be sure
to all the seed;
not to
that only which
is of the law,
but to
that also which
is of the faith
of Abraham;
who is the father
of us all,
(As it
is written,
I have made
thee a father
of many nations,)
before him
whom
he believed,
even God,
who quickeneth the dead,
and calleth those things
which be not as
though they were.
Who against hope
believed
in hope,
that he
might become
the father
of many nations,
according to
that which
was spoken,
So shall
thy seed be.
And being not weak
in faith,
he considered not
his own body now dead,
when
he was about an hundred years
old,
neither yet
the deadness
of Sarah's womb:
He staggered not
at the promise
of God
through unbelief;
but was strong
in faith,
giving glory
to God;
And being fully persuaded that,
what
he had promised,
he was able also
to perform.
And if Christ
be in you,
the body
is dead
because
of sin;
but the Spirit
is life
because
of righteousness.
But
if the Spirit
of him
that raised
up Jesus
from the dead
dwell
in you,
he that
raised
up Christ
from the dead
shall also quicken
your mortal bodies
by his Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
For the earnest expectation
of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation
of the sons
of God.
Because the creature itself
also shall be delivered
from the bondage
of corruption
into the glorious liberty
of the children
of God.
For we
know
that the whole creation
groaneth
and travaileth
in pain
together until now.
And
not only they,
but ourselves also,
which have
the firstfruits
of the Spirit,
even
we ourselves
groan
within ourselves,
waiting
for the adoption,
to wit,
the redemption
of our body.
And God
hath both raised
up the Lord,
and will also raise up us
by his own power.
Now
if Christ
be preached
that he
rose
from the dead,
how say some
among you
that there is no resurrection
of the dead?
But
if there be no resurrection
of the dead,
then is
Christ not risen:
And
if Christ
be not risen,
then is our preaching vain,
and your faith
is also vain.
Yea,
and
we are found false witnesses
of God;
because
we have testified
of God
that he
raised
up Christ:
whom
he raised not up,
if so
be that
the dead rise not.
For if
the dead rise not,
then is not
Christ raised:
And
if Christ
be not raised,
your faith
is vain;
ye are yet
in your sins.
Then
they also which
are fallen asleep
in Christ
are perished.
If in this life only
we have
hope in Christ,
we are of all men most miserable.
But now is Christ
risen from the dead,
and become
the firstfruits
of them
that slept.
For since by man
came death,
by man
came also
the resurrection
of the dead.
For as in Adam
all die,
even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.
But every man
in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits;
afterward
they
that are Christ's
at his coming.
Then cometh the end,
when
he shall have delivered
up the kingdom
to God,
even the Father;
when he
shall have put down
all rule
and all authority
and power.
For he must reign,
till he
hath put all enemies
under his feet.
The last enemy
that shall be destroyed
is death.
For he
hath put all things
under his feet.
But when he
saith all
things
are put under him,
it is
manifest that
he is excepted,
which did put all things
under him.
And
when
all things
shall be subdued unto him,
then shall
the Son
also himself
be subject
unto him that put all things
under him,
that God
may be all in all.
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?
And
why stand
we
in jeopardy every hour?
I protest
by your rejoicing which
I have
in Christ Jesus
our LORD,
I die daily.
If after the manner
of men
I have fought
with beasts
at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me,
if the dead rise not?
let us
eat and drink;
for to morrow
we die.
Be not deceived:
evil communications
corrupt good manners.
Awake
to righteousness,
and sin not;
for some
have not the knowledge
of God:
I speak this
to your shame.
But some man
will say,
How are
the dead raised up?
and with what body
do they come?
Thou fool,
that which
thou sowest
is not quickened,
except it die:
And
that which
thou sowest,
thou sowest not
that body
that shall be,
but bare grain,
it may chance
of wheat,
or of some other grain:
But God
giveth
it a body as it
hath pleased him,
and
to every seed
his own body.
All flesh
is not
the same flesh:
but there is
one kind
of flesh of men,
another flesh
of beasts,
another of fishes,
and another
of birds.
There are also
celestial bodies,
and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory
of the celestial
is one,
and the glory
of the terrestrial
is another.
There is
one glory
of the sun,
and another glory
of the moon,
and another glory
of the stars:
for one star
differeth
from another star
in glory.
So also is
the resurrection
of the dead.
It is sown
in corruption;
it is raised
in incorruption:
It is sown
in dishonour;
it is raised
in glory:
it is sown
in weakness;
it is raised
in power:
It is sown
a natural body;
it is raised
a spiritual body.
There is
a natural body,
and there is
a spiritual body.
And so
it is written,
The first man Adam
was made
a living soul;
the last Adam
was made
a quickening spirit.
Howbeit that
was not first which
is spiritual,
but that which
is natural;
and afterward
that which
is spiritual.
The first man
is of the earth,
earthy;
the second man
is the Lord
from heaven.
As is the earthy,
such are
they also
that are earthy:
and as is
the heavenly,
such are
they also
that are heavenly.
And as we
have borne the image
of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly.
Now this
I say,
brethren,
that flesh
and blood
cannot inherit
the kingdom
of God;
neither doth
corruption
inherit
incorruption.
Behold,
I shew
you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep,
but
we shall all be changed,
In a moment,
in the twinkling
of an eye,
at the last trump:
for the trumpet
shall sound,
and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible,
and
we shall be changed.
For this corruptible
must put on
incorruption,
and this mortal
must put on
immortality.
So when this corruptible
shall have put on
incorruption,
and this mortal
shall have put on
immortality,
then shall be brought
to pass
the saying
that is written,
Death is swallowed up
in victory.
O death,
where is
thy sting?
O grave,
where is thy victory?
The sting
of death
is sin;
and the strength
of sin
is the law.
But thanks
be to God,
which giveth us
the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Knowing that
he which raised
up the Lord Jesus
shall raise up us
also by Jesus,
and shall present us
with you.
For we
know that
if our earthly house
of this tabernacle
were dissolved,
we have a
building of God,
an house
not made
with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
For in this
we groan,
earnestly desiring
to be clothed upon
with our house
which is from heaven:
If so
be
that being clothed
we shall not be found naked.
For we
that
are in this tabernacle
do groan,
being burdened:
not for that
we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon,
that mortality
might be swallowed up
of life.
Now
he that
hath wrought us
for the selfsame thing
is God,
who also hath given
unto us the earnest
of the Spirit.
That I
may know him,
and the power
of his resurrection,
and the fellowship
of his sufferings,
being made conformable
unto his death;
If by any means
I might attain
unto the resurrection
of the dead.
Who shall change
our vile body,
that it
may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body,
according to
the working whereby
he is able
even
to subdue all things
unto himself.
For if
we believe
that Jesus
died
and rose again,
even so
them
also which sleep
in Jesus
will
God
bring with him.
But is now made
manifest
by the appearing
of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death,
and hath brought life
and immortality
to light
through the gospel:
Who concerning
the truth
have erred,
saying
that the resurrection
is past already;
and overthrow
the faith
of some.
Of the doctrine
of baptisms,
and
of laying on
of hands,
and
of resurrection
of the dead,
and
of eternal judgment.
Accounting that God
was able
to raise him up,
even from the dead;
from whence also
he received him
in a figure.
Women
received
their dead raised
to life again:
and others
were tortured,
not accepting deliverance;
that they
might obtain
a better resurrection:
I am
he that liveth,
and was dead;
and,
behold,
I am alive
for evermore,
Amen;
and have
the keys
of hell
and of death.
And
I saw thrones,
and
they
sat upon them,
and judgment
was given unto them:
and I
saw the souls
of them that
were beheaded
for the witness
of Jesus,
and for the word
of God,
and which
had not worshipped
the beast,
neither his image,
neither had received
his mark
upon their foreheads,
or in their hands;
and
they lived
and reigned
with Christ
a thousand years.
But the rest
of the dead
lived not again until
the thousand years
were finished.
This is the first resurrection.
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.
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.