Job 14:14 Cross References

Job 14:14

14: If mortals die, can they live again? This thought would give me hope, and through my struggle I would eagerly wait for release.

But let me tell you a wonderful secret God has revealed to us. Not all of us will die, but we will all be transformed.
It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, the Christians who have died will be raised with transformed bodies. And then we who are living will be transformed so that we will never die.

"Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard, like that of a hired hand,

The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones.
He led me around among the old, dry bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground.
Then he asked me, "Son of man, can these bones become living people again?O Sovereign LORD," I replied, "you alone know the answer to that."
Then he said to me, "Speak to these bones and say, `Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD!
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to breathe into you and make you live again!

Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the LORD.

"But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last.
And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

The sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead in them. They were all judged according to their deeds.

I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.

Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.

You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.

Dear brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the Lord's return. Consider the farmers who eagerly look for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They patiently wait for the precious harvest to ripen.
You, too, must be patient. And take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.

Jesus replied, "Your problem is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God.
For when the dead rise, they won't be married. They will be like the angels in heaven.
But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead--haven't you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said,
'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' So he is the God of the living, not the dead."

It is the same way for the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies, which die and decay, will be different when they are resurrected, for they will never die.
Our bodies now disappoint us, but when they are raised, they will be full of glory. They are weak now, but when they are raised, they will be full of power.
They are natural human bodies now, but when they are raised, they will be spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, so also there are spiritual bodies.

For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died.
I can tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not rise to meet him ahead of those who are in their graves.
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.

Don't be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's Son,
and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to judgment.

He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer everything, everywhere.

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