40 Easter Bible Quotes on Resurrection

1. “The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on
the

third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins
will be preached in his name.” (Luke 24:46-47)

2. “He was delivered up for our trespasses and
raised for our justification.” (Romans 4:25)

3. “Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised
on the third day.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-5)

4. “According to his great mercy, he has caused us
to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (1 Peter
1:3)

5. “For as by a man came death, by a man has come
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die,
so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1 Corinthians
15:21-22)

6. “For if we have been united with him in a death
like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a
resurrection like his.” (Romans 6:5)

7. “We know that Christ, being raised from the
dead, will never die again; death no longer has
dominion over him.” (Romans 6:9)

8. “…that I may know him and the power of his
resurrection, and may share his sufferings,
becoming like him in his death…” (Philippians 3:10)

9. “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever
believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and
everyone who lives and believes in me shall never
die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)

10. “…just as Christ was raised from the dead by the
glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness
of life.” (Romans 6:4)

11. “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from
the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through his Spirit who dwells in you.” (Romans
8:11)

12. “Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one
who died—more than that, who was raised— who
is at the right hand of God, who indeed is
interceding for us.” (Romans 8:34)

13. “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is
Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

14. “For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or
let your holy one see corruption.” (Psalm 16:10)

15. “He will swallow up death in victory; and the
Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces.” (Isaiah 25:

16. “But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities; on him was the
chastisement that brought us peace, and by his
stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)

17. “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and
at the last He will take His stand on the earth.” (Job
19:25)

18. “God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by
his power.” (1 Corinthians 6:14)

19. “…who through him are believers in God, who
raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so
that your faith and hope are in God.” (1 Peter 1:21)

20. “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile
and you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17)

Christian Quotes on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

21. “The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive,
it is so much more. The message of Easter is that
Jesus has risen.” (Colin Smith)

22. “Our sin reached its full horror and found its
most awful expression in the cross.” (Colin Smith)

23. “The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it
DOES NOT CONTAIN.” (Sam Morris)

24. “We live and die; Christ died and lived!” (John
Stott)

25. “The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of
death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison,
but a passage into God’s presence. Easter says you
can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay
there.” (Clarence W. Hall)

26. “The primary source of the appeal of
Christianity is Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His
crucifixion, and His resurrection.” (K. Latourette)

27. “Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when,
after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had
come upon the disciples.” (Alfred Noyes)

28. “The cross is a one time visual representation of
God’s grief over sin.” (Dean L. Harvey)

29. “Live in the awareness that Christ lives and that
He lives in His people.” (Julien B. Weil)

30. “The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the
triumph…The resurrection is the public display of
the victory, the triumph of the crucified one.” (Leon
Morris)

31. “The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is
still alive. And for the immense majority of our
contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is
for us Christians to love one another.” (Louis Evely)

32. ♪ Christ the Lord is risen today / Sons of men
and angels say / Raise your joys and triumphs
high / Sing ye heavens, and earth reply. (Charles
Wesley, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”)

33. “All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ,
hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to
ignore its meaning.” (Oswald Chambers)

34. “According to the laws of legal evidence used in
courts of law, there is more evidence for the
historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
than for just about any other event in
history.” (Harvard Law Professor Dr. Simon
Greenleaf)

35. ♪ Hear the bells ringing they’re singing “Christ is
risen from the dead!” / The angel up on the
tombstone said / He is risen just as he said! (Keith
Green, “The Easter Song”)

36. “There is no historic incident better or more
variously supported than the resurrection of
Christ.” (Brooke Foss Wescott)

37. “The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection;
the Resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the
Resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian
faith; it is the Christian faith.” (John S. Whale)

38. ♪ Up from the grave he arose / With a mighty
triumph o’er his foes / He arose a victor from the
dark domain… (“Up from the Grave He Arose”)

39. “Our Lord has written the promise of
resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in
springtime.” (Martin Luther)

40. “The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan’s
captive power. When He led the Old Testament
saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity
captive!” (Leon Morris)

Bonus Quotes

41. “Our justification hinges on a risen life, present
in us now because Christ is present with us
now.” (Paul F.M. Zaul)

42. “Our old history ends with the cross; our new
history begins with the resurrection.” (Watchman
Nee)

43. “The entire plan for the future has its key in the
resurrection.” (Billy Graham)

44. “There is more evidence that Jesus rose from
the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived
or that Alexander the Great died at the age of
thirty-three.” (Billy Graham)