Zechariah 1:5

A Plea For Repentance

⁴ Don't be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "It's time to turn from your evil lifestyles and from your evil actions," "but they would neither listen nor pay attention to me,'" declares the LORD.' ⁵ "Your ancestors where are they? And the prophets do they live forever? ⁶ But my words and my statutes that I gave as commands to my servants the prophets did they not overwhelm your ancestors? And they returned to me: "The LORD of the Heavenly Armies acted toward us just as he planned to do in keeping with our lifestyles and in keeping with our actions.'"

Live Forever

Job 14:10-12

"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?

Psalm 90:10

We live for 70 years, or 80 years if we're healthy, yet even in the prime years there are troubles and sorrow. They pass by quickly and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

In light of all of this, I committed myself to explain it this way: the righteous and the wise, along with everything they do, are in the hands of God. Furthermore, as to love and hate, no human being knows everything concerning them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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.

John 8:52

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

Acts 13:36

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.

Hebrews 7:23-24

There have been many priests, since each one of them had to stop serving in office when he died.

Hebrews 9:27

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

2 Peter 3:2-4

to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.