Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.

But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.