This Bible study is based on Bible Readings for the Home, a topical study presented in a question-and-answer format. The scripture references come from both the KJV and NIV translations. Additionally, we’ve provided links to each verse from the World English Bible for a more modern interpretation. We encourage you to follow along in your own Bible, reflect on the guided questions, and highlight the verses that speak to you. Feel free to share this study with your friends and family. Enjoy the journey!
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
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12 Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
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10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
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5 For in death there is no memory of you.
In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
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2 While I live, I will praise Yahweh.
I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3 Don’t put your trust in princes,
each a son of man in whom there is no help.
4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.
In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.
I will redeem them from death!
Death, where are your plagues?
Sheol, where is your destruction?
“Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
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21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
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16 For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.
17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
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But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
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Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
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36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
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Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
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and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
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15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
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Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
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and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
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16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
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23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
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and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
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15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
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42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
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20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
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55 “Death, where is your sting?
Hades, where is your victory?”
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For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
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4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
5 The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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9 They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.
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But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
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13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.
14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
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