Life After Death

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth.

And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God.

For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for He shall receive me. Selah.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; the rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.

I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

And Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice.

and come forth — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

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

We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.