'Back' in the Bible

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

I planned to leave you in order to go to Macedonia, and then come back to you from Macedonia, and let you send me on to Judea.

But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

We are speaking freely to you, Corinthians [we are keeping nothing back], and our heart is opened wide.

Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.

yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account.

For [you can look back and] see what an earnestness and authentic concern this godly sorrow has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves [against charges that you tolerate sin], what indignation [at sin], what fear [of offending God], what longing [for righteousness and justice], what passion [to do what is right], what readiness to punish [those who sin and those who tolerate sin]! At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.

I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,

Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

Meanwhile, I thought it best to send Epaphroditus my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need back to you.

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

and through [the intervention of] the Son to reconcile all things to Himself, making peace [with believers] through the blood of His cross; through Him, [I say,] whether things on earth or things in heaven.

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism. >

and to wait for his Son whom he raised from the dead to come back from heaven. This Jesus is the one who rescues us from the coming wrath.

But now that Timothy has come back to us from [his visit with] you, and has brought us good news of your [steadfast] faith and [the warmth of your] love, and [reported] that you always think kindly of us and treasure your memories of us, longing to see us just as we long to see you,

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,

You know what it is that is now holding him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes.

For the secret of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the person now holding it back gets out of the way.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

I am sending him back to you as a part of myself.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,

I, Paul, write [this] with my [own] hand: I will pay it back, lest I mention to you that {you owe me even your very self besides}.

At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

and then have fallen away—it is impossible to bring them back again to repentance, since they again nail the Son of God on the cross [for as far as they are concerned, they are treating the death of Christ as if they were not saved by it], and are holding Him up again to public disgrace.

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

I especially ask you to do this so that I may be brought back to you sooner.

Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.

Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

The proverb is true that describes what has happened to them: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A pig that is washed goes back to wallow in the mud."

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have accomplished together, but that you may receive a full and perfect reward [when He grants rewards to faithful believers].

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who [always] loves us and who [has once for all] freed us [or washed us] from our sins by His own blood (His sacrificial death)—

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears,

And I turned back to see the voice which spoke with me; and having turned, I saw seven golden lamps,

Therefore, remember how far you have fallen. Repent and go back to what you were doing at first. If you don't, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place unless you repent.

Something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal, was also before the throne. Four living creatures covered with eyes in front and in back were in the middle and around the throne.

Then I saw in the right hand of the One seated on the throne a scroll with writing on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the land, on the sea, or on any tree.

Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back.

Pay her back the way she also paid,and double it according to her works.In the cup in which she mixed,mix a double portion for her.

Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection.