Early Death

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. — read the full passage →

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.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. — read the full passage →

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.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. — read the full passage →

“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.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ — read the full passage →

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

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

“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 →

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. — 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.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

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 →

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. — read the full passage →

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.’”

Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. — read the full passage →

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.”

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

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 →

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

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 we must die, and are like water split on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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 →

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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 →

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

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.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety. — read the full passage →

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 →

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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 →