Daniel 12:2

Many who sleep in the dust will awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This is the Old Testament's clearest promise of bodily resurrection and final judgment.

Cross-references · 17

• John 5:28–29Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
• Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• Matt 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Ezek 37:12Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
• Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
• 1 Cor 15:51–54Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
• Acts 24:15and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
• 1 Th 4:14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
• Ezek 37:1–4The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
• Job 19:25–27But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
• 1 Cor 15:20–22But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• Isa 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
• Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
• John 11:23–26“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
• Matt 22:29–32Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
• Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
• Rom 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

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