Praying For The Dead

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

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 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 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.'

And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,

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.

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 →

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

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

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

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.

`Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.

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;

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;

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

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

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

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;

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

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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

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 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 →

And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit--to inquire, --

yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'

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

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.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass in those days, that the Philistines gather their camps for the war, to fight against Israel, and Achish saith unto David, `Thou dost certainly know that with me thou dost go out into the camp, thou and thy men.' — read the full passage →

there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, — read the full passage →

there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,

Appointing the number of the stars, To all them He giveth names. — read the full passage →

And David saith unto Achish, `Therefore--thou dost know that which thy servant dost do.' And Achish saith unto David, `Therefore--keeper of my head I do appoint thee all the days.'

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;

Far <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.

for on him hath Jehovah thy God fixed, out of all thy tribes, to stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, He and his sons continually.

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

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,

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`And a man or woman--when there is in them a familiar spirit, or who <FI>are<Fi> wizards--are certainly put to death; with stones they stone them; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.'

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

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

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'

in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,

because the eyes of the Lord <FI>are<Fi> upon the righteous, and His ears--to their supplication, and the face of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon those doing evil;'

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name. — read the full passage →

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

`There is not to the priests the Levites--all the tribe of Levi--a portion and inheritance with Israel; fire-offerings of Jehovah, even His inheritance, they eat, — read the full passage →

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

And Samuel hath died, and all Israel mourn for him, and bury him in Ramah, even in his city, and Saul hath turned aside those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens above, or which <FI>is<Fi> in the earth beneath, or which <FI>is<Fi> in the waters under the earth. — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

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

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

and he hath no inheritance in the midst of his brethren; Jehovah Himself <FI>is<Fi> his inheritance, as He hath spoken to him.

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

`And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'

`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.

`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 →

`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 →

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.

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

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,

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience, — read the full passage →

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. — read the full passage →

And Simon answering, said, `Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.'

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely; — read the full passage →

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death; — read the full passage →

and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.

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