The righteous one perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence of evil.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “let them rest from their labors, for their works follow them!”

Was carried

For He will give His angels orders concerning you,
to protect you in all your ways.

the field is the world; and the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

Abraham's

I tell you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

One of His disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close beside Jesus.

So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them. That disciple was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray You?”

The rich

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace.

They trust in their wealth
and boast of their abundant riches.

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,
but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will wither away while pursuing his activities.

He Himself bore our sins
in His body on the tree,
so that, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.

And was buried

Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, “Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she’s a king’s daughter.”

In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they did so. This too is futile.

All the kings of the nations
lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.

What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?

General references

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than a rich man who distorts right and wrong.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.