Praying For The Dead

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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.

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.”

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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

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 →

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

“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 there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

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.

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

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.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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 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 →

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, — read the full passage →

In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men.” — read the full passage →

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, — read the full passage →

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. — read the full passage →

David said to Achish, “Therefore you shall know what your servant will do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore will I make you my bodyguard for ever.”

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.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons for ever.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

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,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

He told them this parable.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion. — read the full passage →

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. — read the full passage →

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

“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 →

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 →

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. — read the full passage →

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. — read the full passage →

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. — read the full passage →