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What does the Bible say about the first resurrection?

27 verses about the first resurrection, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about the first resurrection

Revelation 20:6 — Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 6 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:13 — But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 4 votes
Revelation 20:5 — But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 4 votes
Matthew 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 3 votes
John 6:50 — This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 3 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 3 votes
Revelation 20:4 — And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 3 votes
Isaiah 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 2 votes
Daniel 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 2 votes
Matthew 20:18 — Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 2 votes
Matthew 28:5 — And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 2 votes
Mark 16:6 — And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. 2 votes
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
John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 2 votes
John 20:8 — Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. 2 votes
Acts 3:26 — Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. 2 votes
Acts 26:22 — Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: 2 votes
Romans 6:5 — For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 2 votes
1 Corinthians 15:3 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 2 votes
1 Corinthians 15:21 — For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 2 votes
2 Corinthians 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 2 votes
Philippians 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 2 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:16 — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 2 votes
1 Peter 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 2 votes
1 Peter 3:21 — The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 2 votes
Revelation 20:1 — And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 votes
Revelation 20:12 — And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 2 votes

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