The Immortal Soul

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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

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 →

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

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

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

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 →

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

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

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 →

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

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

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. — read the full passage →

neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — 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.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 →

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.

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

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.

“‘Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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.”

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

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,

“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, — read the full passage →

There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. — read the full passage →

An oracle. Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →

Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”

and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. — read the full passage →

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; — read the full passage →

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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 →

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

“‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. — read the full passage →

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder, — read the full passage →

Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. — read the full passage →

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. — read the full passage →

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead. — read the full passage →

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. — read the full passage →