Zechariah 1:5

A Plea For Repentance

⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 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 Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Live Forever

Job 14:10-12

But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, 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 is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.

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; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, 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 goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

John 8:52

The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Hebrews 7:23-24

And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

2 Peter 3:2-4

that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles: