Easter Sunday is a highly anticipated occasion. We look forward to dying and decorating eggs, wearing our favorite pastel dresses, and enjoying delicious food. Easter Sunday also represents rebirth and resurrection, so to honor this occasion, we collected Bible verses to help inspire you during this season. Whether you're teaching about the scripture at Sunday school, looking for an inspirational Easter Instagram caption, making Easter cards, decorating for a spring party, or reading the Easter story, these resurrection Bible verses are sure to fill your heart and lift your spirit.
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Easter Bible Verses About Miracles
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- "They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus." —Luke 24:2-3
- "With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all." —Acts 4:33
- "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!" —Phillippians 2:8
- "You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead." —Acts 3:15
- "Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." —Mark 15:32
- "He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken." —Isaiah 25:8
- "And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." —Acts 4:33
- "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins." —1 Corinthians 15:17
- "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth." —Job 19:25
- "More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation." —Romans 5:11
- "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power." —1 Corinthians 6:14
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Easter Bible Verses About Faith
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- "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?'" —John 11:25-26
- "Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us." —Romans 8:34
- "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." —Colossians 1:13-14
- "He exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms." —Ephesians 1:20
- "Because, 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
- "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." —John 14:6
- "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." —1 Corinthians 1:18
- "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." —Romans 8:11
- " 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
- "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” —John 6:40
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Easter Bible Verses About Sacrifice
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- "But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us." —Romans 5:8
- "So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid." —Mark 15:46-47
- "Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' When he had said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, 'Surely this was a righteous man.'" —Luke 23:46-47
- "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance. Or you at the first: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas. That is, Peter and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born." —1 Corinthians 15:3-8
- "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus." —Romans 6:8-11
- "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." —Colossians 1:13-14
- "Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." —Luke 9:23-24
- "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." —Philippians 2:8
- "But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them." —Revelation 11:11
- "Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin." —Romans 6:6
- "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed." —1 Peter 2:24
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Easter Bible Verses About Rebirth
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- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" —2 Corinthians 5:17
- "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." —1 Peter 1:3
- "He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'" —Luke 24:6-7
- "As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 'Don't be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.'" — Mark 16:5-7
- "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." —2 Corinthians 5:17
- "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." —Colossians 1:13-14
- "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, 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
- "Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead." —Isaiah 26:19
- "He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit." —Titus 3:5
- "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! 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
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Easter Bible Verses About Love
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- "Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins." —Peter 4:8
- "To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen." —Revelation 1:5-6
- "Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends." —John 15:13
- "There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." —John 4:18
- "Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law." —Romans 13:8
- "Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with." —1 Corinthians 13:8
- "In addition to all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity." —Colossians 3:14
- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." —John 3:16
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