Bible Verses on Jesus’ Resurrection is a blog on the risen Lord Jesus Christ. You’ll adore this poster if you’re a fan of the Bible texts that talk about Jesus’ resurrection. Bible scriptures regarding Jesus’ resurrection that are particularly meaningful to the ChristianArt.net staff are included. These passages were selected because of their significance to our faith and their ability to illuminate the meaning of the resurrection. Here in this paper, we shall examine kjv Bible passages that speak about the resurrection of the dead.
We Christians have been expecting Jesus’s return for 2,000 years. We had better get ready, since it’s nearly here. Jesus promised to return “on the final day” long before he was killed. What does it even imply, though? When Christ returns, how will the world look then? How can I get myself prepared? In addition, how will I be notified? These texts from the Old Testament that speak of the resurrection will be discussed in this article.
Jesus’ resurrection may serve as motivation to push through difficulties, gain wisdom from adversity, and start afresh. Jesus tells his followers in the last chapter of John’s gospel, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” This is both a declaration of reality and a promise from God to those who put their trust in Jesus, since no one else had ever risen from the dead or promised to do so before Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb.
Bible Verses About Resurrection Of Jesus
John 11:25 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 67 helpful votes
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? …
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Romans 10:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 8:11 ESV / 44 helpful votes
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Acts 17:31 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Romans 6:4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Luke 24:36-43 ESV / 29 helpful votes
As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. …
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. …
Romans 14:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
1 Corinthians 15:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. …
Romans 8:34 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Romans 1:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Luke 24:13-35 ESV / 15 helpful votes
That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. …
1 Corinthians 15:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
John 20:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Acts 2:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
John 6:50-71 ESV / 10 helpful votes
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. …
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. …
Mark 16:1-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. …
1 Corinthians 15:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
Acts 2:29-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
John 20:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
John 2:19-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Philippians 3:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Acts 1:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
John 20:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 14:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Mark 16:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. …
Revelation 1:17-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
2 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
2 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
1 Corinthians 15:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
Romans 4:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Acts 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
Luke 24:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
Luke 1:1-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. …
Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. …
Colossians 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 1:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Galatians 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Acts 23:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
John 19:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
John 5:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Mark 10:32-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
Matthew 27:62-66 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
Psalm 49:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah
Psalm 30:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
2 Timothy 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Corinthians 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
John 20:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20:11-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” …
John 6:55-59 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Luke 24:44-46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
Luke 24:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
Bible Verses About Resurrection Of The Dead Kjv
There are many Bible verses about the resurrection of the dead. Here are a few of them:
But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.” ( (Ephesians 4:7-8)
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” ( (1 Corinthians 15:53-54)
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead,… ( (1 Corinthians 15:17-20)
(1 Corinthians 15:12)
There will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
(Acts 24:15)
The hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
(John 5:28-29)
1 Corinthians 15:12-22
Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, our preaching is empty and your faith also is empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterwards
In Matthew 19:28, Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
In Revelation 20:4-6, we read that Jesus Christ will return to earth with His saints and destroy the wicked. The dead will be judged according to their deeds (Revelation 20:12). Then those who are found worthy will receive eternal life (Revelation 21:3-5) while those who are not will be thrown into hell (Revelation 20:11-15).
“The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.” 1 Corinthians 15:17-19
“The dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:52
“We know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.” 2 Corinthians 5:1
Resurrection Verses In The Old Testament
The following is a list of resurrection verses from the Old Testament. These verses should be considered in light of the fact that Jesus was resurrected from the dead in fulfillment of these scriptures.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 – The valley of dry bones
Daniel 12:1-4 – Resurrection and Judgment
Isaiah 26:19 – Resurrection and Judgment
Psalm 16:10-11 – Resurrection and Judgment
Psalm 49:15-16 – Resurrection and Judgment
Psalm 73:23-24 – Resurrection and Judgment
Psalm 88:10-12 – Resurrection and Judgment
Isaiah 25:7 – Resurrection and Judgment
Resurrection is the idea that a dead person can be brought back to life. It is a central tenet of the Christian faith, but also a concept that exists in other religions and cultures.
The Old Testament contains several references to resurrection. But these are different from what we think of as resurrection today. Instead, they are more like reincarnation or metempsychosis (the transfer of the soul at death to a new body).
The first mention of resurrection in the Bible comes from Genesis:
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel…’When he lies with you again, he will surely rise up against you; then you will fall down together, because he has done this to you once already.'” (Genesis 3:15-16)
In this passage God promised that Eve’s offspring would defeat Satan’s offspring. Some see this as God promising mankind would one day be resurrected after death so that we could defeat Satan for good by defeating death itself. That’s one interpretation (and it’s not all that far-fetched), but it’s not really clear from this passage alone whether Adam and Eve were actually supposed to die again and come
The Bible is filled with resurrection stories. In fact, the first chapter of the book of Genesis contains three different accounts of resurrection. Here are seven more:
- The account of Abraham’s servant (Genesis 24)
- The story of Joseph’s rise to power in Egypt (Genesis 37-50)
- The story of Moses’ mother who places her baby son in a basket among the reeds on the banks of the Nile River (Exodus 1)
- The account of Jonah’s encounter with death at sea (Jonah 1)
- The story of Daniel in the lion’s den (Daniel 6)
- The account of Elijah being taken up into heaven (“rapture” style) (2 Kings 2:11)
- The story about Jesus’ crucifixion and subsequent resurrection from the dead (Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 24; John 19)
Isaiah 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.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
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 he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts. And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will open your graves…and I will put my spirit within you…and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord…and will bring you into the land…and ye shall be my people…for I have spoken it.”Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen…and they shall be mine:
Old Testament Resurrection Verses
1 Samuel 28:12-19
After the Philistines had taken the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 13 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 14 On the following morning, when they rose early, behold, Dagon had fallen on its face on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put it back in its place. 15 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on its face on the ground before the ark of the LORD; only its head was left to him. 16 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house tread on Dagon’s head anymore. 17 But since then, though you are careful to keep all this commandment, if you turn away from me and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare that even as surely as I live, all Israel will be destroyed from under heaven because of you. The Lord will become angry with Israel