Biblical Concept: Dead in the Epistles to the Church

Prologue

^NAS John 20:9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

^NAS Acts 26:8 "Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?

²³ that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He should be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

Findings

“Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead”

“God, who gives life to the dead”

Abraham: “body, now as good as dead”

“who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead”

“we have been buried with Him through baptism into death”

“Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father”

⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master

over Him.

Christ: dead, die, death, no longer.

“consider yourselves to be dead to sin”

“present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead”

“to Him who was raised from the dead”

“apart from the Law sin is dead”

the body is dead because of sin

“Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you”

“He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead”

“God raised Him from the dead”

Israel: “what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?”

Christ: “He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living”

“if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord”

1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some

among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised;

Corinth: “if in fact the dead are not raised”

¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised;

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

Baptized to replace the dead.

“If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

“resurrection of the dead” … “an imperishable body”

Last trumpet: “the dead will be raised imperishable”

“we had the sentence of death within ourselves”

“God the Father, who raised Him from the dead”

“He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead”

Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

“Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead”

Philippians 3:11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Christ: “He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead”

“God, who raised Him from the dead”

“you were dead in your transgressions”

Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity,

passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

“dead to immorality”

1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus,

who delivers us from the wrath to come

“the dead in Christ shall rise first”

1 Timothy 5:6 But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead”

“Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead”

Elementary: “repentance from dead works”

Elementary: “resurrection of the dead”

Blood of Christ: “cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Covenant, dead, in force.

Abel faith: “God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.”

Abraham: “him as good as dead”

Abraham: “considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead”

“Women received back their dead by resurrection”

“God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd”

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

“faith without works is dead”

“born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”

“God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory”

1 Peter 4:5 but they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

“gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead”

“caring for themselves” … “doubly dead”

Jesus Christ: “the first-born of the dead”

Revelation John: “I fell at His feet as a dead man”

Jesus Christ: “I have the keys of death and of Hades”

Jesus: “first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life”

Sardis: ” you are alive, but you are dead”

Tribulation Witnesses: “their dead bodies will lie in the street”

Tribulation Witnesses: “will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb”

“the time came for the dead to be judged”

Tribulation: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!”

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a

dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.

Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is

the first resurrection.

¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and

another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which

were written in the books, according to their deeds.

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in

them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.

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^NAS Romans 1:4 who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, (“Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead”)

^NAS Romans 4:17 (as it is written, "A father of many nations have I made you") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. (“God, who gives life to the dead”)

¹⁹ And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb; (Abraham: “body, now as good as dead”)

²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be reckoned, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, (“who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead”)

^NAS Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (“we have been buried with Him through baptism into death”) (“Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father”)

⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. (All) (Christ: dead, die, death, no longer.)

¹¹ Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (“consider yourselves to be dead to sin”)

¹³ and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (“present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead”)

^NAS Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God. (“to Him who was raised from the dead”)

⁸ But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. (“apart from the Law sin is dead”)

^NAS Romans 8:10 And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. (the body is dead because of sin)

¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you. (“Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you”) (“He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead”)

^NAS Romans 10:7 or 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; (“God raised Him from the dead”)

^NAS Romans 11:15 For if their rejection be the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? (Israel: “what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?”)

^NAS Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. (Christ: “He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living”)

^NAS 1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. (“if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord”)

^NAS 1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? (All)

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; (All)

¹⁵ Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. (Corinth: “if in fact the dead are not raised”)

¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised;(All)

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. (All)

²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. (All)

²⁹ Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? (Baptized to replace the dead.)

³² If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. (“If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”)

³⁵ But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; (“resurrection of the dead” … “an imperishable body”)

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. (Last trumpet: “the dead will be raised imperishable”)

^NAS 2 Corinthians 1:9 indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves in order that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; (“we had the sentence of death within ourselves”)

^NAS Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men, nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), (“God the Father, who raised Him from the dead”)

^NAS Ephesians 1:20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, (“He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead”)

^NAS Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, (All)

⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), (“dead in our transgressions”)

^NAS Ephesians 5:14 For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you." (“Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead”)

^NAS Philippians 3:11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (All)

^NAS Colossians 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything. (Christ: “He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead”)

^NAS Colossians 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. (“God, who raised Him from the dead”)

¹³ And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, (“you were dead in your transgressions”)

^NAS Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. (All) (“dead to immorality”)

^NAS 1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. (All)

^NAS 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. (“the dead in Christ shall rise first”)

^NAS 1 Timothy 5:6 But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives. (All)

^NAS 2 Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, (“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead”)

^NAS 2 Timothy 4:1 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: (“Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead”)

^NAS Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, (Elementary: “repentance from dead works”)

² of instruction about washings, and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Elementary: “resurrection of the dead”)

^NAS Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ( Blood of Christ: “cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”)

¹⁷ For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. (Covenant, dead, in force.)

^NAS Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. (Abel faith: “God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.”)

¹² therefore, also, there was born of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. (Abraham: “him as good as dead”)

¹⁹ He considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type. (Abraham: “considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead”)

³⁵ Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection; (“Women received back their dead by resurrection”)

^NAS Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, (“God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd”)

^NAS James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. (All)

²⁶ For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (“faith without works is dead”)

^NAS 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (“born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”)

²¹ who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. (“God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory”)

^NAS 1 Peter 4:5 but they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. (All)

⁶ For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God. (“gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead”)

^NAS Jude 1:12 These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; (“caring for themselves” … “doubly dead”)

^NAS Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, (Jesus Christ: “the first-born of the dead”)

¹⁷ And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as a dead man. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, (Revelation John: “I fell at His feet as a dead man”)

¹⁸ and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. (Jesus Christ: “I have the keys of death and of Hades”)

^NAS Revelation 2:8 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this: (Jesus: “first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life”)

^NAS Revelation 3:1 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says this: 'I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. (Sardis: ” you are alive, but you are dead”)

^NAS Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. (Tribulation Witnesses: “their dead bodies will lie in the street”)

⁹ And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. (Tribulation Witnesses: “will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb”)

¹⁸ "And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." (“the time came for the dead to be judged”)

^NAS Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them." (Tribulation: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!”)

^NAS Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died. (All)

^NAS Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. (All)

¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. (All)

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. (All)

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