'Dead' in the Bible

because He has set a day when He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man He has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, “We’d like to hear from you again about this.”

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”

or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

Instead they had some disagreements with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, a dead man Paul claimed to be alive.

Why is it considered incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

and who has been declared to be the powerful Son of God by the resurrection from the dead according to the Spirit of holiness.

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Christ died and came to life for this: that He might rule over both the dead and the living.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;

In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ—whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

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

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

So it is with the resurrection of the dead:Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;

in a moment, in the blink of an eye,at the last trumpet.For the trumpet will sound,and the dead will be raised incorruptible,and we will be changed.

Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Paul, an apostle—not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead—

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,and the Messiah will shine on you.

assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

He is also the head of the body, the church;He is the beginning,the firstborn from the dead,so that He might come to havefirst place in everything.

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

Keep your attention on Jesus Christ as risen from the dead and descended from David. This is according to my gospel.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of His appearing and His kingdom:

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

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—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,

In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

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

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

They will give an account to the One who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

For this reason the gospel was also preached to those who are now dead, so that, although they might be judged by men in the fleshly realm, they might live by God in the spiritual realm.

These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood,

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says:

“Write to the angel of the church in Sardis:“The One who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.

Their dead bodies will lie in the public square of the great city, which prophetically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

The nations were angry,but Your wrath has come.The time has comefor the dead to be judgedand to give the rewardto Your servants the prophets,to the saints, and to those who fear Your name,both small and great,and the time has come to destroythose who destroy the earth.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed.”“Yes,” says the Spirit, “let them rest from their labors, for their works follow them!”

The second poured out his bowl into the sea. It turned to blood like a dead man’s, and all life in the sea died.

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

I also saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged according to their works by what was written in the books.

Then the sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead; all were judged according to their works.