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Bible Verses About the first resurrection

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Discover 20 powerful Bible verses about the first resurrection. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential theology & doctrine topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: Revelation 20:6
King James (KJV)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.

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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.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof , and not die.
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
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.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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, abundant: Gr. much
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
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.
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
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,
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

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