Bible Verses About Life After Death
This collection includes 50 passages about Life After Death. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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.
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And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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