Hutterites affirm a conscious afterlife: the souls of the faithful rest with God between death and the final resurrection. At the last day, all will be raised bodily for judgment. The resurrection hope sustains the community in its countercultural simplicity and in its willingness to endure hardship for faithfulness.

Hutterite spirituality, shaped by the memory of the martyrdom of Jakob Hutter himself (burned alive in 1536) and hundreds of other early Hutterites, holds the prospect of death and eternal life with great seriousness. The Märtyrer-Lieder (martyr songs) that form part of the Hutterite oral and written tradition express confident hope in resurrection and eternal life.