When We Die

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

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

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out 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 who sins, he shall die.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 →

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. — read the full passage →

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

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 →

“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.

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

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

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,

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 →

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.”

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

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 her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

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 →

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

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.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

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

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

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.”

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.

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!”

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. — read the full passage →

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

“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.

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

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

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

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

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. 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 who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

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,

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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 the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention 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 who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. — read the full passage →

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say 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 the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. — read the full passage →

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

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

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. — read the full passage →

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