More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death---but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ.

And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.

If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.

But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.

For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!"

By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.

And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.

Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.

We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus to life, will also raise us up with Jesus and take us, together with you, into his presence.

All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death,

in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life.

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.

Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice

and come out of their graves: those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.

And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day.

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength

which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.

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.