Early 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 →

Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it <FI>is<Fi> ,' I know how frail I <FI>am<Fi> . — read the full passage →

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble! — read the full passage →

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days. — read the full passage →

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

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 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.

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? --Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived; — read the full passage →

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

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.

Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed--And not one among them.

`And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech; — read the full passage →

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 the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. — read the full passage →

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;

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

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.

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

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.'

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but--as a step between me and death.'

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

Mortal man! as grass <FI>are<Fi> his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; — read the full passage →

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.'

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.

In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her. — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us? — read the full passage →

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

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh <FI>is<Fi> grass, and all its goodliness <FI>is<Fi> As a flower of the field: — read the full passage →

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.

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

`And thou, rise, go to thy house; in the going in of thy feet to the city--hath the lad died; — read the full passage →

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.

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!'

Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

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

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 →

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 →

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

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

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 →

`I--I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

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

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

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

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;

for we do surely die, and <FI>are<Fi> as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

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 →

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

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.'

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

where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?' — read the full passage →

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

And I <FI>am<Fi> as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;

`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 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.

Man to vanity hath been like, His days <FI>are<Fi> as a shadow passing by.

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.

because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away, — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

For who knoweth what <FI>is<Fi> good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

for sojourners we <FI>are<Fi> before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow <FI>are<Fi> our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

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;

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 →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

That this God <FI>is<Fi> our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack,

Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently: — read the full passage →

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

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, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

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 →

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it--dying thou dost die.'

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →