1 Corinthians 15:12-23: "12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
"20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ."
1 Corinthians 15:55-57: "55 'O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?' 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
John 14:19: "'Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.'"
Romans 6:3-5: "3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 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.
"5 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."
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1 Corinthians 15:55-57 appears in the lines "Death has lost its sting and terror" at the end of the second verse and "Death has lost its old dominion" at the beginning of the third. 1 Corinthians 15:12-23 appears in the lines "If the Lord had never risen, / We'd have nothing to believe" and "As we share the death of Adam, / So in Christ we live again" in the second verse and "Christ, the firstborn of the living, / Gives us life and leads us out" in the third.
John 14:19 also appears in the second verse: "But His promise can be trusted: / 'You will live, because I live.'"
I can't find a clear instance of Romans 6 in the hymn text. It could just be included as an-other citation for the lines "But His promise can be trusted: / 'You will live, because I live.' / As we share the death of Adam, / So in Christ we live again." It might be that "Let us thank our God, who causes / Hope to spring up from the ground" in the third verse has some connection with "we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his."
In the first verse, there are the lines "Do not look among the dead for / One who lives forevermore," which seems to be taken from Luke 24:5: "And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'"
John 14:19 also appears in the second verse: "But His promise can be trusted: / 'You will live, because I live.'"
I can't find a clear instance of Romans 6 in the hymn text. It could just be included as an-other citation for the lines "But His promise can be trusted: / 'You will live, because I live.' / As we share the death of Adam, / So in Christ we live again." It might be that "Let us thank our God, who causes / Hope to spring up from the ground" in the third verse has some connection with "we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his."
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In the first verse, there are the lines "Do not look among the dead for / One who lives forevermore," which seems to be taken from Luke 24:5: "And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'"
