Acts 26:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

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  • Acts 4:2 : 2 Being disturbed that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
  • Acts 10:40-42 : 40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed him openly; 41 Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.
  • Acts 13:30-31 : 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 And he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
  • Acts 17:31-32 : 31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being questioned.
  • Acts 25:19 : 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  • 1 Cor 15:12-20 : 12 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? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen: 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain. 15 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 if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most miserable. 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
  • Phil 3:21 : 21 Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Luke 18:27 : 27 And he said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.
  • Matt 22:29-32 : 29 Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
  • Luke 1:37 : 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.

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  • 30 But God raised him from the dead:

  • 15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

  • 21 Except it be for this one statement, that I cried standing among them, Regarding the resurrection of the dead I am questioned by you this day.

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    31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

    32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.

  • 12 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?

  • 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.

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    15 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 if in fact the dead do not rise.

    16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

  • 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.

  • 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

  • 24 Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

  • 21 Who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  • 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

  • 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • 35 But someone will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?'

  • 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.

  • 24 But also for us, to whom it shall be credited, if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

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    26 But concerning the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

    27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

  • 10 Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

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    40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed him openly;

    41 Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

    42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

  • 9 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

  • 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; of which we are witnesses.

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    6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers:

    7 To which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God day and night, hope to attain. For this hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

  • 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

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    5 They shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

    6 For this reason was the gospel preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • 3 Opening and explaining that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is Christ.

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    37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the bush passage, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

    38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

  • 19 Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:

  • 11 If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

  • 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed by hanging on a tree.

  • 29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?

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    25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live:

    26 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

  • 14 Knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also by Jesus, and will present us with you.

  • 7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up again from the dead).

  • 10 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

  • 14 And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by His own power.

  • 17 As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.

  • 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

  • 22 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know:

  • 27 And he said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

  • 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.