John 11:39

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. It’s been four days.”

John 11:17

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Psalm 49:7

Yet these cannot redeem a person
or pay his ransom to God—

Psalm 49:9

so that he may live forever
and not see the Pit.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Mark 16:3

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?”

Acts 2:27

because You will not leave me in Hades
or allow Your Holy One to see decay.

Acts 13:36

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

Philippians 3:21

He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.

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