Zechariah 1:5

A Plea For Repentance

⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings,

Live Forever

Job 14:10-12

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

John 8:52

The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age.

Acts 13:36

For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.

Hebrews 7:23-24

And of course those who have become priests are more, because of being prevented to continue by death,

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

2 Peter 3:2-4

to remember the sayings that were earlier spoken by the holy prophets, and of the command of your apostles of the Lord and Savior.