John 11:44

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Your 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.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.

Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

I 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.

He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.

He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

I and the Father are one.”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.