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 5:28–29Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Ezek 37:12Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
• Rev 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• 1 Cor 15:51–54Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
• Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will 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 God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
• Ezek 37:1–4Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
• Job 19:25–27But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
• 1 Cor 15:20–22But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Isa 66:24“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
• Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
• John 11:23–26Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
• Matt 22:29–32But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Jer 20:11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
• Rom 9:21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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