15 Scripture Verses To Prepare For Easter

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As we begin Holy Week, we of course each look forward to Easter, the day that we celebrate Christ’s resurrection, fulfilling the prophecies and overcoming death. Before Sunday, though, we reflect on the last week of Christ’s life on earth through Holy Week. We prepare our hearts and minds to once again take joy in the good news of His rising, pondering the weight of Christ’s sacrifice for us and what this means for how we live our lives now, thousands of years later.

To help you, we’ve compiled a list of 15 scripture verses to read this week.

Luke 23:46-47

“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.’”

John 11:25-26

“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?’”

Matthew 28:6

“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”

Romans 6:9

“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.”

Isaiah 26:19

“But your dead will live, Lord; their bodies will rise—let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy—your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.”

1 Corinthians 6:14

“By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.”

Romans 6:8-11

“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.”

Colossians 1:13-14

“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.”

Acts 2:24

“But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.”

John 6:40

“For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

1 Peter 1:21

“Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”

Romans 6:3-4

“Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”

Isaiah 25:8

“He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.”

Philippians 2:8

“And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

1 Peter 2:24

“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.”