Luke 16:31

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But Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'

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  • Gen 9:27 : 27 May God enlarge Japheth's territory, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.
  • John 11:43-53 : 43 After saying this, he shouted in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out!' 44 The man who had died came out, bound hand and foot with strips of cloth, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, 'Unbind him and let him go.' 45 Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus did believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said, 'What are we going to do since this man is performing so many signs?' 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, 'You know nothing at all!' 50 'You do not realize that it is better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.' 51 He did not say this on his own; but as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation. 52 And not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on, they plotted to kill him.
  • John 12:10-11 : 10 So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus as well, 11 because many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus because of him.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 Paul went into the synagogue, and for three months he spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, 'In such a short time, are you trying to persuade me to become a Christian?'
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 They arranged to meet with him on a certain day, and many came to the place where he was staying. From morning until evening, Paul was explaining and testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
  • 2 Cor 4:3 : 3 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

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    26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.

    27He said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house,

    28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so they will not also come to this place of torment.'

    29But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'

    30‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Exod 4:8
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    8'If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.'

  • Mark 12:26
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    26Regarding the dead being raised—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

  • Mark 11:31
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    31They reasoned among themselves, saying, 'If we say, From heaven, he will ask, Then why didn’t you believe him?'

  • John 5:46-47
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    46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

    47But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?

  • Mark 16:13
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    13They returned and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.

  • John 20:9
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    9For they still did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

  • Matt 22:31
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    31And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:

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    17The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify about it.

  • John 11:43
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    43After saying this, he shouted in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out!'

  • Acts 13:30
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    30But God raised Him from the dead.

  • John 11:25-26
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    25Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.'

    26'And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever. Do you believe this?'

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    5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

  • Exod 4:1
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    1Then Moses answered and said, 'What if they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?

  • Acts 3:23
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    23And it will be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

  • Luke 20:5-6
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    5They discussed it among themselves, saying, 'If we say, "From heaven," he will say, "Why did you not believe him?"

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  • 1 Cor 15:12-13
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    12Now if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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  • Luke 16:23
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    23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

  • Luke 9:60
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    60Jesus said to him, 'Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.'

  • Luke 20:37
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    37Even Moses showed that the dead are raised, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

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    14Then He approached the coffin, touched it, and the bearers stopped. He said, 'Young man, I say to you, arise.'

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    52Then the Jews said, "Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

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    18Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him.

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    9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus instructed them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

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    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Isa 8:20
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    22But Jesus told him, 'Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.'

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    9As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, 'Do not tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.'

  • John 11:37
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    11But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it.

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