Top Easter Scripture Verses

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25 Bible Verses for Easter

Easter is a special time for Jesus-followers to reflect on the life, death, and resurrection of their Savior Jesus. As you prepare your heart for this meaningful season, here are the top Bible verses for Easter. These passages highlight the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the hope and new life that Easter brings to believers. Feel free to read these Easter Bible verses for children, in a small group setting, or during your personal reflection time.

“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” – Luke 24:5-7

Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.’ – John 11:25

God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. – Acts 2:24

And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. – Acts 3:15

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. – 1 Thessalonians 4:14

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

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.” – Matthew 28:5-6

“And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.” – Mark 8:31

And he said to them, ‘Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here.’ – Mark 16:6

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. – Luke 23:46

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. – Luke 24:2-3

I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. – Revelation 1:18

Saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!’ – Revelation 5:12

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Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. – Romans 6:8-9

But God raised him on the third day and made him to appear. – Acts 10:40

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

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

And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. –

1 Corinthians 6:14

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. – 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. – 1 Corinthians 15:20

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ ‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ –

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. – Ephesians 1:18-20

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. – Philippians 2:8

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. – Philippians 3:10-11

Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. – Colossians 2:12