Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
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Bible References
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Isaiah 25:8
he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people's disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
Hosea 13:14
Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!
John 5:25
I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Slept
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
1 Corinthians 11:30
That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.
1 Corinthians 15:51
Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed --
1 Thessalonians 4:14
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
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Jeremiah 2:12
Be amazed at this, O heavens! Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded," says the Lord.
Mark 15:38
And the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom.
Luke 19:40
He answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!"