13 Bible Verses about Are The Dead Raised?

So, they kept what He told them to themselves, discussing [only] among themselves what "rising again from the dead" meant.

Some Sadducees [Note: These were the Jewish party that denied there was a resurrection] came to Jesus that day and asked Him,

or, to the people (See Luke 20:9)] by using parables. He said, "A man planted a vineyard and built a fence around it. He dug a place for constructing a grape squeezing device, built a [lookout] tower [near it], then leased it out to tenant farmers and went to another country.

[Then] certain Sadducees came to Jesus (they are the ones who say there is no resurrection [of the dead]).

For the Sadducees believe there is no resurrection, angels or spirits, but the Pharisees accept all of them [to be true].

So, why should you [Jews] consider it incredible for God to raise the dead?

Now when the people heard about the resurrection from the dead, some of them made fun of it, but others said, "We would like to hear [more] from you about this again."

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, [then] Christ has not been raised up either.

For if dead people are not raised up, [then] neither has Christ been raised.

Now if it is preached that Christ was raised from the dead, how can some people among you say that people will not be raised from the dead?

And also, we are found to be false witnesses about God because we testified that God raised up Christ [from the dead], when [in reality] He did not raise Him up if, in fact, the dead are not raised up.

Otherwise [i.e., if there were no resurrection], what do people accomplish by being immersed for those who have [already] died? If dead people are not raised up at all, why then are people immersed on their behalf? [Note: The foregoing rendition is the most commonly held one of over

What benefit was it to me, from a human standpoint, if I fought wild animals in Ephesus, and [yet] the dead are not raised? [Note: This probably refers to Paul facing ferocious opposition from people there in Ephesus]. We should [just] eat and drink, for tomorrow we [may] die.