Theme · christological
Resurrection
Hints of resurrection appear early: Abraham trusts that God can raise the dead, Ezekiel's valley of dry bones promises national restoration, and Daniel 12 envisions the dead rising to everlasting life. But it is Christ's bodily resurrection on the third day that transforms hope into certainty. Paul calls it the foundation without which faith is futile, and declares Christ the 'firstfruits' of those who have fallen asleep. The resurrection guarantees that death is not the final word — believers will share in a bodily resurrection when Christ returns to make all things new.
Passages expressing this theme
- 1Cor 15:3 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
- 1Cor 15:4 — And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
- 1Cor 15:14 — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
- 1Cor 15:17 — And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
- 1Cor 15:20 — But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
- 1Cor 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
- 1Cor 15:55 — O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- 1Pet 1:3 — 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,
- 1Thess 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- Acts 1:3 — To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
- Acts 2:24 — Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Acts 2:32 — This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- Acts 4:33 — And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
- Acts 17:31 — Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from
- Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Dan 12:2 — 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.
- Ezek 37:5 — Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
- Hos 6:2 — After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
- Isa 25:8 — 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.
- Isa 26:19 — 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.
- Job 19:25 — For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
- Job 19:26 — And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
- Matt 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matt 28:6 — He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
- Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;