When We Die

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

And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

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

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

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

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

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. — read the full passage →

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

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 →

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. — 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 that sinneth, it shall die.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; — read the full passage →

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; — read the full passage →

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. — read the full passage →

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, — read the full passage →

Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day.

And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, — read the full passage →

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord — read the full passage →

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. — read the full passage →

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

The soul that sinneth, it 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 upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. — read the full passage →

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, even the things that were in the sea.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

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

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

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ’s, at his coming.

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. — read the full passage →

And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, eventhe lake of fire.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which isthe bookof life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. — read the full passage →

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep. — read the full passage →

Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

And the high priest said, Are these things so? — read the full passage →

The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. — read the full passage →

And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. — read the full passage →

And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. — read the full passage →

And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.