1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
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1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
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1 Corinthians 15:21
For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.
Acts 26:23
That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
John 5:29
And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Psalms 16:11
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
Daniel 12:2
And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
Hosea 6:2
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.
Hosea 13:14
I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
Romans 8:18
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
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Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
John 5:25
Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
John 5:26
For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
John 5:27
And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.
John 5:28
Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.
Revelation 1:18
And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
Acts 17:31
Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:42
So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
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James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
Romans 11:16
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 3:10
So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
Romans 8:23
And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
Romans 16:5
And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.
Nehemiah 10:35
And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;
Deuteronomy 26:10
So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:
2 Chronicles 31:5
And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.
Nehemiah 10:37
And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.
Ezekiel 44:30
And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
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1 Thessalonians 4:13
But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:6
Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;
Matthew 27:52
And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;
Matthew 27:53
And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.
Acts 7:60
And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
John 11:11
These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
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Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I make my request to you, my brothers, for you have knowledge that the house of Stephanas is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have made themselves the servants of the saints,
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Leviticus 23:10
Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;
Leviticus 23:11
And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest.
Leviticus 23:12
And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:13
And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Leviticus 23:14
And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.
Leviticus 23:15
And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;
Leviticus 23:16
Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:17
Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
Exodus 34:22
And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.
1 Corinthians 16:8
But I will be at Ephesus till Pentecost;
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1 Corinthians 15:12
Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:13
But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:
1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.
1 Corinthians 15:15
Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:16
For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:
1 Corinthians 15:17
And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:18
And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.
1 Corinthians 15:4
And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;
2 Timothy 2:8
Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:
1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,
1 Corinthians 15:29
Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?
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Deuteronomy 26:2
You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.
Deuteronomy 26:3
And you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us.
Exodus 23:19
The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Exodus 22:29
Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Numbers 18:13
The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.
Exodus 34:26
Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk
Leviticus 2:12
You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.
Numbers 15:19
Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.
Numbers 15:20
Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.
Deuteronomy 18:4
And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
Deuteronomy 12:6
And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
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Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
John 11:26
And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
John 14:19
A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Acts 2:24
But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
Ephesians 1:20
By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
Colossians 3:1
If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2
Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.
Colossians 3:3
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
Romans 1:4
But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,
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2 Corinthians 4:13
But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;
2 Corinthians 4:14
Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.
Philippians 3:10
That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
Philippians 3:11
If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
Romans 6:4
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
Romans 6:5
For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
1 Corinthians 6:14
And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.
Romans 4:25
Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
2 Corinthians 4:10
In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.
Ephesians 2:6
So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
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1 Corinthians 15:51
See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:46
But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48
Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.
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Hebrews 2:14
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
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Hebrews 2:15
And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
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1 Corinthians 15:35
But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?
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Romans 4:24
But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,
Romans 6:8
But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
Colossians 2:12
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
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2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
2 Thessalonians 1:8
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
2 Thessalonians 1:10
At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.
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