In two or three days he will revive us, and we will live in his presence.

But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.

I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,

In mercy the angel will say, "Release them! They are not to go down to the world of the dead. Here is the ransom to set them free."

because you protect me from the power of death. I have served you faithfully, and you will not abandon me to the world of the dead.

you kept me from the grave. I was on my way to the depths below, but you restored my life.

But God will rescue me; he will save me from the power of death.

You have sent troubles and suffering on me, but you will restore my strength; you will keep me from the grave.

How great is your constant love for me! You have saved me from the grave itself.

The Sovereign LORD will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone's eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The LORD himself has spoken.

God said to me, "Mortal man, the people of Israel are like these bones. They say that they are dried up, without any hope and with no future.

When I open the graves where my people are buried and bring them out, they will know that I am the LORD.

For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!

Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.

For just as death came by means of a man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of a man.

For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.

(SEE 15:51)

So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!"

Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.

While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body, but that we want to have the heavenly one put on over us, so that what is mortal will be transformed by life.

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.

Then the sea gave up its dead. Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held. And all were judged according to what they had done.

He will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared."

God is not like people, who lie; He is not a human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises, he does; He speaks, and it is done.

Israel's majestic God does not lie or change his mind. He is not a human being---he does not change his mind."

You people have rejected me; you have turned your backs on me. So I reached out and crushed you because I was tired of controlling my anger.

"I am the LORD, and I do not change. And so you, the descendants of Jacob, are not yet completely lost.

For God does not change his mind about whom he chooses and blesses.

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.