'Dead' in the Bible

Arise, take to thee the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.

But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

he said, Withdraw, for the damsel is not dead, but sleeps. And they derided him.

Heal the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.

Blind men see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings preached to them:

and said to his servants, This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead, and because of this these works of power display their force in him.

And as they descended from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of man be risen up from among the dead.

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of the dead, but of the living.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

And for fear of him the guards trembled and became as dead men.

And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.

And Herod the king heard of him (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among the dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

But Herod when he heard it said, John whom I beheaded, he it is; he is risen from among the dead.

And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among the dead.

And they kept that saying, questioning among themselves, what rising from among the dead was.

And having cried out and torn him much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.

For when they rise from among the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels who are in the heavens.

But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the section of the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Ye therefore greatly err.

And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having called to him the centurion, he inquired of him if he had long died.

And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her.

And the dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;

While he was yet speaking, comes some one from the ruler of the synagogue, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher.

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done by him, and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among the dead,

But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do thou go and announce the kingdom of God.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in the section of the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;

but he is not God of the dead but of the living; for all live for him.

And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?

and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;

When therefore he was raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.

Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days there.

And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead.

A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among the dead.

The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among the dead.

but coming to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead they did not break his legs,

for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.

This is already the third time that Jesus had been manifested to the disciples, being risen from among the dead.

but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

but God raised him from among the dead,

But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.

opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I announce to you.

because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this.

And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.

But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

other than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching the resurrection of the dead.

but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?

namely, whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of the dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord,

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.

that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?

For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

But if there is not a resurrection of those that are dead, neither is Christ raised:

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

For if those that are dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;

(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

For since by man came death, by man also resurrection of those that are dead.

Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from among the dead,

in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,

and you, being dead in your offences and sins --

(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.