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14 If mortals die, will they live again?
    All the days of my service I would wait
    until my release should come.(A)

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51 Look, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die,[a] but we will all be changed,(A) 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 will be changed.(B)

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  1. 15.51 Gk fall asleep

Job: My Suffering Is without End

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
    and are not their days like the days of a laborer?(A)

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13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.(A)

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21 He will transform the body of our humiliation[a] that it may be conformed to the body of his glory,[b] by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.(A)

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  1. 3.21 Or our humble bodies
  2. 3.21 Or his glorious body

42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.(A) 44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

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Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?(A)

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28 Do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and will come out: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation.(A)

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The Valley of Dry Bones

37 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.(A) He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”(B) Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath[a] to enter you, and you shall live.(C) I will lay sinews on you and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath[b] in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”(D)

So I prophesied as I had been commanded, and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath:[c] Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath,[d] and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”(E) 10 I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.(F)

11 Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’(G) 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.(H) 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people.(I) 14 I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.”(J)

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  1. 37.5 Or wind or spirit
  2. 37.6 Or wind or spirit
  3. 37.9 Or wind or spirit
  4. 37.9 Or wind or spirit

14 Wait for the Lord;
    be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!(A)

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15 See, he will kill me; I have no hope;[a]
    but I will defend my ways to his face.(A)

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  1. 13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him

Patience in Suffering

Be patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.(A) You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.[a](B)

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  1. 5.8 Or is at hand

14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.[a](A) 15 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died.[b] 16 For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.(B)

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  1. 4.14 Gk fallen asleep
  2. 4.15 Gk fallen asleep

29 Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.(A) 30 For in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of God[a] in heaven. 31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead but of the living.”(B)

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  1. 22.30 Other ancient authorities lack of God

25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
    to the soul that seeks him.(A)
26 It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.(B)

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Psalm 40

Thanksgiving for Deliverance and Prayer for Help

To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.

I waited patiently for the Lord;
    he inclined to me and heard my cry.(A)
He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
    out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
    making my steps secure.(B)

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  1. 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult

16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.(A)

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25 For I know that my vindicator[a] lives
    and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;(A)
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
    then in my flesh I shall see God,(B)

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  1. 19.25 Or redeemer

Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,(A)

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