Early Death

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one momentto his lifespan?

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this. — read the full passage →

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? — read the full passage →

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — read the full passage →

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, — read the full passage →

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →