Death And Dying

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

`And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches--to abhorrence age-during.

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -- — read the full passage →

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; — read the full passage →

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the death for His saints.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; — read the full passage →

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ-- — read the full passage →

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

the last enemy is done away--death;

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him. — read the full passage →

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — read the full passage →

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; — read the full passage →

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying <FI>it<Fi> to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. — read the full passage →

For all the while my breath <FI>is<Fi> in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, — read the full passage →

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

who shall suffer justice--destruction age-during--from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became, — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see--to the age.'

for since through man <FI>is<Fi> the death, also through man <FI>is<Fi> a rising again of the dead,

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil-- — read the full passage →

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die; — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living--who do remain over to the presence of the Lord--may not precede those asleep, — read the full passage →

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us-- — read the full passage →

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory; — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For--I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

and now, he hath died, why <FI>is<Fi> this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

For Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen; — read the full passage →

For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land. — read the full passage →

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign--