Near Death Experiences

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.

Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

`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 if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

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.

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

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

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab, — read the full passage →

and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — 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,

And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

Only--unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit. — 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.

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose, — read the full passage →

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

In the year of the death of king Uzziah--I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple. — 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.

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

Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.' — read the full passage →

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

`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

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;

`And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

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.'

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — 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.

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

For Thou <FI>art<Fi> our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, <FI>art<Fi> our Father, Our redeemer from the age, <FI>is<Fi> Thy name.

Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a strong one: `Together they lie down--they rise not, They have been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.'

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

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.

Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

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.

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul--unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'

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.

And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? --For the living unto the dead!

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For--I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.