What does the Bible say about reincarnation?

18 verses about reincarnation, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about reincarnation

1. Hebrews 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 8 votes
2. Job 14:10 — But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 5 votes
3. Ecclesiastes 12:7 — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 5 votes
4. Psalms 78:39 — For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 4 votes
5. 2 Samuel 12:23 — But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. 3 votes
6. Job 14:14 — If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. 3 votes
7. Matthew 25:46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. 3 votes
8. Luke 16:19 — There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 3 votes
9. 2 Samuel 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. 2 votes
10. Job 7:9 — As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 2 votes
11. Job 10:21 — Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 2 votes
12. Job 16:22 — When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. 2 votes
13. Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. 2 votes
14. Luke 23:43 — And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 2 votes
15. John 3:1 — There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 votes
16. John 5:28 — Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 2 votes
17. John 9:1 — And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 votes
18. 2 Corinthians 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 votes

Where these verses are

Job (5), Luke (3), John (3), 2 Samuel (2), Psalms (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Matthew (1), 2 Corinthians (1), Hebrews (1)

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