Zechariah 1:5

A Plea For Repentance

⁴ Do not be as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, said the 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 slaves the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? Therefore they returned from captivity and said, Like as the LORD of the hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.

Live Forever

Job 14:10-12

But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides for ever.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

Certainly I applied my heart unto all of this that I might declare all of this: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; no man knows either love or hatred by all that passes before them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they shall also be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and appetite shall fail: because man goes to the home of his age, and the mourners shall go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

John 8:52

Then the Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keeps my word, he shall not taste death forever?

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was gathered unto his fathers and saw corruption;

Hebrews 7:23-24

And the others, truly, were many priests because they were not able to continue by reason of death:

Hebrews 9:27

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

2 Peter 3:2-4

that ye keep in memory the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of our commandment, that we are apostles of the Lord and Saviour,