Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."
then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.
if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.
When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.
All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.
I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!
he looked ahead and spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah: "He was not abandoned to Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.'
God raised him from the dead, never to experience decay, as he said, "I'll give you the holy promises made to David.' In another Psalm he says, "You will not let your Holy One experience decay.' Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay. read more.
However, the man whom God raised did not experience decay.
However, the man whom God raised did not experience decay.
This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.
Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.
Repentance » Instances of » Jonah, after his punishment
He said: "I called out to the LORD from the midst of affliction directed at me, and he answered me. From the depths of death I cried out for help; and you heard my cry. You cast me into the deep into the heart of the sea. Flood waters engulfed me. All your breakers and your waves swirled over me. So I told myself, "I have been driven away from you. How will I again gaze on your holy Temple?' read more.
Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head. I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God! "As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple. Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs. But as for me, with a voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance is the LORD's!"
Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head. I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God! "As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple. Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs. But as for me, with a voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance is the LORD's!"