60 Bible Verses about Last Things

Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"

This he said, then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to waken him." "Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

and on entering he asked them, "Why make a noise and wail? The child is not dead but asleep."

Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay,

after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Jesus said, "I am. And, what is more, you will all see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

and then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only my Father.

Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but only the Father.

So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

(Lo, I am coming like a thief; blessed be he who keeps awake and holds his raiment fast, not to go naked and have the shame of exposure!)

For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory, and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,

And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival.

Watch then, for you never know when the Lord of the House will come, in the late evening or at midnight or at cock-crow or in the morning.

Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you, and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ,

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ ??15 which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

sure that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise me too with Jesus and set me at your side in his presence.

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal; sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power; sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body.

I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable. Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality;

And just as it is appointed for men to die once and after that to be judged,

Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God.

but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead

Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found. And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened ??also another book, the book of Life, was opened ??and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,

when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.

inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.

and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus; the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.