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 5:28–29Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
• Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
• Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• Ezek 37:12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
• Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• 1 Cor 15:51–54Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
• Acts 24:15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
• 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
• Ezek 37:1–4The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
• Job 19:25–27For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
• 1 Cor 15:20–22But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
• Isa 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
• Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
• John 11:23–26Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
• Matt 22:29–32Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
• Rom 9:21Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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