1 Corinthians 15:16
For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
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11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.
12 No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.
- 1 Cor 15:17-237 verses88%
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.
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29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?
- 1 Cor 15:3-53 verses76%
3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
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35 The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
- 1 Cor 15:42-443 verses75%
42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is 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. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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30 But God raised him from the dead,
- 1 Thess 4:13-164 verses75%
13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
- Rom 8:9-113 verses74%
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
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9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
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32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
- 2 Cor 5:14-152 verses72%
14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
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37 but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.
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5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.
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6 But he said to them,“Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.
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14 Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.
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8 Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?
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31 He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
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15 You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!
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32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
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24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
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9 (For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)
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6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
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14 We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.