Hope and Eternal Life in the Bible

1Now I declare to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

3For I delivered to you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

12Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

14If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

15Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn`t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

16For if the dead aren`t raised, neither has Christ been raised.

17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

21For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ`s, at his coming.

24Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

26The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

27For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

28When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

35But some one will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

37That which you sow, you don`t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

38But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

40There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

41There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can`t inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

55"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord`s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be men! Be strong!

14Let all that you do be done in love.

13Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

21who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became the father of us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance, and that doesn`t fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

5who by the power of God are guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

13But because you are partakers of Christ`s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy.

10But may the God of all grace (who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus), after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead -- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn`t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God`s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

16Therefore we don`t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

18while we don`t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

3if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

8We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

16I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

10Therefore I endure all things for the elect`s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me to his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

5because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

4When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord, Christ.

23let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.

13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.

15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

23to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

14For we don`t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

6but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

17Wherein God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us,

19which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

34They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."

18There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

19"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, `If a man`s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up children to his brother.`

20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no children.

21The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

22and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

23In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

24Jesus answered them, "Isn`t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?

25For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

26But about the dead, that they are raised; haven`t you read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, `I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?`

27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."

28However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

43Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the council of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus` body.

44Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for a while.

45When he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

46He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

47Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

1When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

2Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

3They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"

4for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back

5Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

6He said to them, "Don`t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, `He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.`"

8They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

31For he taught his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."

9As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen again from the dead.

10They kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean.

1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God`s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can`t lie, promised before eternal times;

2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can`t lie, promised before eternal times;

11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ;

13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ;

7that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.