Ecclesiastes 8:10

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they no longer have a reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous [person] is a [source of] blessing,
But the name of the wicked will [be forgotten and] rot [like a corpse].

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no [more] lasting remembrance of the wise man than of the fool, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. And how does the wise man die? Even as the fool!

2 Kings 9:34-35

When he came in, he ate and drank, and said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

Job 21:18

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

Job 21:32-33

“When he is carried to his grave,
A guard will keep watch over his tomb.

Psalm 31:12

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

Psalm 122:1-5

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of earlier things,
Nor also of the later things that are to come;
There will be for them no remembrance
By generations who will come after them.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who abandon You will be shamed.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Luke 16:22

Now it happened that the poor man died and his spirit was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom (paradise); and the rich man also died and was buried.

Acts 6:13

They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the Law [of Moses];

Hebrews 10:38

But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.

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