Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 25:8
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.
Hosea 13:14
I will not save this people from the world of the dead or rescue them from the power of death. Bring on your plagues, death! Bring on your destruction, world of the dead! I will no longer have pity for this people.
1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy to be defeated will be death.
1 Corinthians 15:42
This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.
1 Corinthians 15:53
For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.
1 Corinthians 15:54
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!"
Philippians 3:21
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
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Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope.
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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.
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W_ hat we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died.
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There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first;
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then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
Revelation 20:6
Happy and greatly blessed are those who are included in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them; they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they will rule with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 21:4
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."
Revelation 22:2-5
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and flowing down the middle of the city's street. On each side of the river was the tree of life, which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; and its leaves are for the healing of the nations.
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Nothing that is under God's curse will be found in the city. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.
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They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads.
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There shall be no more night, and they will not need lamps or sunlight, because the Lord God will be their light, and they will rule as kings forever and ever.
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Zechariah 3:7
the LORD Almighty had said: "If you obey my laws and perform the duties I have assigned you, then you will continue to be in charge of my Temple and its courts, and I will hear your prayers, just as I hear the prayers of the angels who are in my presence.
Matthew 22:30
For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.
Mark 12:25
For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.
1 Corinthians 15:49
Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:52
Revelation 5:6-14
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Then I saw a Lamb standing in the center of the throne, surrounded by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb appeared to have been killed. It had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God that have been sent through the whole earth.
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The Lamb went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.
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As he did so, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people.
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They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.
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You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they shall rule on earth."
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Again I looked, and I heard angels, thousands and millions of them! They stood around the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders,
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and sang in a loud voice: "The Lamb who was killed is worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, and strength, honor, glory, and praise!"
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And I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, in the world below, and in the sea---all living beings in the universe---and they were singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be praise and honor, glory and might, forever and ever!"
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The four living creatures answered, "Amen!" And the elders fell down and worshiped.
Revelation 7:9-12
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After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd---no one could count all the people! They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
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They called out in a loud voice: "Salvation comes from our God, who sits on the throne, and from the Lamb!"
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All the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures. Then they threw themselves face downward in front of the throne and worshiped God,
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saying, "Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might belong to our God forever and ever! Amen!"
Revelation 22:9
But he said to me, "Don't do it! I am a servant together with you and with your brothers the prophets and of all those who obey the words in this book. Worship God!"
the children of God
Romans 8:17-23
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Since we are his children, we will possess the blessings he keeps for his people, and we will also possess with Christ what God has kept for him; for if we share Christ's suffering, we will also share his glory.
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I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children.
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For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope
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that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.
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For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
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But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
1 John 3:2
My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.