Acts 26:8

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Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

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  • Acts 4:2 : 2 angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
  • Acts 10:40-42 : 40 but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen, 41 not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
  • Acts 13:30-31 : 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.
  • Acts 17:31-32 : 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.” 32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council,“Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”
  • Acts 25:19 : 19 Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.
  • 1 Cor 15:12-20 : 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. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised. 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.
  • Phil 3:21 : 21 who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
  • Luke 18:27 : 27 He replied,“What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God.”
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
  • Matt 22:29-32 : 29 Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”
  • Luke 1:37 : 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

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  • Acts 13:30
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    30But God raised him from the dead,

  • Acts 24:15
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    15I have a hope in God(a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

  • Acts 24:21
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    21other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them:‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

  • Acts 17:31-32
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    31because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

    32Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”

  • 1 Cor 15:12
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    12No 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?

  • Acts 13:37
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    37but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.

  • John 5:28
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    28“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

  • 1 Cor 15:15-16
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    15Also, 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.

    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Acts 26:27
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    27Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe.”

  • Acts 25:19
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    19Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

  • Acts 2:24
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    24But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  • Acts 2:32
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    32This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

  • Matt 22:31
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    31Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • Acts 26:23
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    23that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

  • Rom 4:24
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    24but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

  • Mark 12:26-27
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    26Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

    27He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

  • Acts 4:10
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    10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

  • Acts 10:40-42
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    40but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

    41not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

    42He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

  • Acts 26:9
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    9Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

  • Acts 26:6-7
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    6And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

    7a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God night and day. Concerning this hope the Jews are accusing me, Your Majesty!

  • Rom 8:11
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    11Moreover 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.

  • 1 Pet 4:5-6
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    5They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

    6Now 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.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”

  • Luke 20:37-38
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    37But even Moses revealed 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.

    38Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.”

  • Acts 26:19
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    19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Phil 3:11
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    11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

  • Acts 5:30
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    30The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29Otherwise, 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?

  • 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 will live even if he dies,

    26and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14We 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.

  • Rom 10:7
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    7or“Who will descend into the abyss?”(that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

  • Ps 88:10
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    10Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks?(Selah)

  • 1 Cor 6:14
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    14Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

  • Rom 4:17
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    17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

  • 1 Thess 4:14
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    14For 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.

  • Acts 2:22
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    22“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know–

  • Luke 18:27
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    27He replied,“What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God.”

  • Rom 6:8
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    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.