Topic

Untimely Death

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Psalms 118:17

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

Isaiah 57:1–2

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

Genesis 6:3

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

John 11:25–26

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Psalms 23:4

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.

Psalms 139:16

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Romans 14:8

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.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Revelation 21:4

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.”

Psalms 116:15

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

Hosea 13:14

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Romans 8:18

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

John 14:1–3

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:38–39

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

Revelation 14:13

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

John 11:1–57

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

John 5:24

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

John 3:16

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.

Daniel 10:10–21

Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands. — read the full passage →

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–2

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:55

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Revelation 21:3–4

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. — read the full passage →

Romans 6:23

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

Daniel 8:1–27

In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 37:1–28

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 2:9

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Psalms 91:16

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

2 Corinthians 5:8

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

2 Corinthians 4:17–18

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 4:16–18

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

John 14:6

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

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

1 Thessalonians 4:13–14

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 →

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16–17

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 →

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

2 Corinthians 1:3–4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Luke 23:46

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Matthew 6:34

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Romans 8:1–39

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Mark 1:1–45

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Hebrews 9:27

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

1 Thessalonians 4:13

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.

Philippians 1:23–24

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

2 Corinthians 5:1

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.

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 5:12

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

John 13:7

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

John 5:28–29

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 →

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Esther 2:3

Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

Revelation 20:14

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Romans 8:18–19

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:16–17

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

Romans 5:1–21

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

John 14:1–4

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

Revelation 1:1–20

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, — read the full passage →

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

John 8:32

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Matthew 16:25

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 11:1–30

When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. — read the full passage →

Genesis 6:6

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Thessalonians 4:16–17

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, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 5:6–8

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 →

2 Corinthians 5:1–2

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. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:42–44

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:42

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Romans 10:9

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 5:7–8

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. — read the full passage →

John 14:1

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Hebrews 2:14–15

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:54

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.”

John 11:23–26

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” — read the full passage →

John 10:10

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Psalms 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalms 23:1

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

2 Timothy 1:4

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

1 Thessalonians 4:1–18

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 12:9

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 15:21

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

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.

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