Topic
Life After Death
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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
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.”
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — 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.
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
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 →
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — 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.
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.”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.
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.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →
Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
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.”
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
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 to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →
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 →
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — 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.
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.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →
“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
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.”
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.
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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 →
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
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 →
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →
“At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book. — 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 →
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 →
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
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.
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised. — read the full passage →
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.” — read the full passage →
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.” — read the full passage →
Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
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. — read the full passage →
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. — read the full passage →
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses. — read the full passage →
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace be to you.”
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ — read the full passage →
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. — read the full passage →
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — 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? — read the full passage →
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. — read the full passage →
The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence; — 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.”
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