It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:32.

And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them,Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember St Luke how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 24:5^6.

   I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John11:25.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 6:1^2.

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 6:9.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:20^2.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of aneye, atthelasttrump: for thetrumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:51^2.

  Faith without works is dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 2:20.

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell as his feet as dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:13^17.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:18.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation14:13.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And thesea gave up the dead whichwere in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And deathand hell were cast intothelake of fire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 20:11^14.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.

-Binyon, (Robert) Laurence
  'For the Fallen', in The Times, 21 Sep.

Best bloody place is bloody bed, With bloody ice on bloody head, You might as well be bloody dead, In bloody Orkney.

-Blair, Hamish pseudonym of  Andrew James Fraser Blair
  'The Bloody Orkneys', last stanza. First published in Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse,'Queer People'.

And night this toppling reed, still as the dead The great pike lies, the murderous patriarch, Watching the water-pit shelving and dark Where through the plash his lithe bright vassals tread.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'The Pike'.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer,  Apostle's Creed.

We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for theresurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead).

-Book of Common Prayer
Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea,  At the Burial of their Dead at Sea.

   Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Dead'.

The world was beforethecreationand at anend beforeit had a beginning; and thus was I dead before I was alive. Though my grave be England, my dying place was Paradise, and Eve miscarried of me before she conceived of Cain.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 59.

Can we not force from widowed poetry, Now thou art dead, great Donne, one elegy To crown thy hearse?

-Carew,Thomas
  'An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr.  John Donne'.