The Resurrection of the Righteous

The first resurrection

Revelation 20:4-6

4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

The resurrection of the just

Luke 14:14

and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

The resurrection of life

John 5:29

And come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.

A better resurrection

Hebrews 11:35

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

The resurrection of (from among) the dead

Philippians 3:10-15

10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.