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Bible Verses About Hope and Resurrection

The ultimate anchor of Christian hope — resurrection, eternal life, death defeated by Christ.

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The ultimate anchor of Christian hope is the reality of the resurrection and the defeat of death. Through Christ’s victory, we have the certain promise of eternal life and a future where mourning is no more. Find your identity-in-christ in the one who has conquered the grave on your behalf.

Key Passages

"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."

"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."

"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,"

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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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