Life After Death

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;

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

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

`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 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 →

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

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

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

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;

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

In the path of righteousness <FI>is<Fi> life, And in the way of <FI>that<Fi> path <FI>is<Fi> no death!

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.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, — 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 →

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

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

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, <FI>that<Fi> there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

the last enemy is done away--death;

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

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — 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 →

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

`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.

by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou <FI>art<Fi> , and unto dust thou turnest back.'

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — 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;

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.

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them; — read the full passage →

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

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

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

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!'

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,

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

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 →

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

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

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 →

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

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

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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

And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain <FI>others<Fi> with them, — read the full passage →

`And at that time stand up doth Michael, the great head, who is standing up for the sons of thy people, and there hath been a time of distress, such as hath not been since there hath been a nation till that time, and at that time do thy people escape, every one who is found written in the book. — 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 →

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 →

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.'

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

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.

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;

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen, — read the full passage →

see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.' — read the full passage →

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

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

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held, — read the full passage →

If a man dieth--doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

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

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--'

see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.' — read the full passage →

And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Emmaus, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

For an event <FI>is to<Fi> the sons of man, and an event <FI>is to<Fi> the beasts, even one event <FI>is<Fi> to them; as the death of this, so <FI>is<Fi> the death of that; and one spirit <FI>is<Fi> to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity. — read the full passage →

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end <FI>are<Fi> ways of death.

`This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; — read the full passage →

and thou--thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!'

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

I--in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, <FI>with<Fi> Thy form!

`And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; — read the full passage →

That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. — 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.

For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

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,

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor--being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

There hath been upon me a hand of Jehovah, and He taketh me forth in the Spirit of Jehovah, and doth place me in the midst of the valley, and it is full of bones, — read the full passage →

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

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; — read the full passage →

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