Bible Verses About The First Resurrection
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the first resurrection, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 486 votes, led by Revelation 20:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The First Resurrection
Revelation 20:644 votes
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:532 votes
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-1829 votes
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
John 6:50-7124 votes
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Matthew 27:5221 votes
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Revelation 20:421 votes
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
1 Thessalonians 4:1419 votes
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Daniel 12:215 votes
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
1 Thessalonians 4:1615 votes
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Isaiah 26:1914 votes
Thy 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.
Revelation 20:12-1314 votes
And 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.
John 11:25-2613 votes
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
1 Peter 1:313 votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Matthew 20:18-1912 votes
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
Matthew 28:5-612 votes
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
Mark 16:612 votes
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
John 5:28-2912 votes
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John 20:8-912 votes
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
Acts 3:2612 votes
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts 26:22-2312 votes
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
Romans 6:5-612 votes
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
1 Corinthians 15:3-412 votes
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:2112 votes
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
2 Corinthians 5:14-1512 votes
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Philippians 3:1012 votes
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
What does the Bible say about the first resurrection?
Readers most often cite Revelation 20:6 on the subject of the first resurrection. Across 486 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 20:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, John 6:50-71. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.