Reference: Death
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Is taken in Scripture, first, for the separation of body and soul, the first death, Ge 25:11; secondly, for alienation from God, and exposure to his wrath, 1Jo 3:14, etc.; thirdly, for the second death, that of eternal damnation. Death was the penalty affixed to Adam's transgression, Ge 2:17; 3:19; and all his posterity are transgressors, and share the curse inflicted upon him. CHRIST is "our life." All believers share his life, spiritually and eternally; and though sin and bodily is taken away, and in the resurrection the last enemy shall be trampled under foot, Ro 5:12-21; 1Co 15.
Natural death is described as a yielding up of the breath, or spirit, expiring, Ps 104:29; as a return to our original dust, Ge 3:19; Ec 12:7; as the soul's laying off the body, its clothing, 2Co 5:3-4, or the tent in which it has dwelt, 2Co 5:1; 2Pe 1:13-14. The death of the believer is a departure, a going home, a falling asleep in Jesus, Php 1:23; Mt 26:24; Joh 11:11.
The term death is also sometimes used for any great calamity, or imminent danger threatening life, as persecution, 2Co 1:10. "The gates of death," Job 38:17, signify the unseen world occupied by departed spirits. Death is also figuratively used to denote the insensibility of Christians to the temptations of a sinful world, Col 3:3.
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But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.
These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken. read more. But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men. And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number. For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ. So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men. Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man. And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
So that our spirits may not be unclothed. For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
Easton
may be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) "The dust shall return to the earth as it was" (Ec 12:7).
(2.) "Thou takest away their breath, they die" (Ps 104:29).
(3.) It is the dissolution of "our earthly house of this tabernacle" (2Co 5:1); the "putting off this tabernacle" (2Pe 1:13-14).
(4.) Being "unclothed" (2Co 5:3-4).
(5.) "Falling on sleep" (Ps 76:5; Jer 51:39; Ac 13:36; 2Pe 3:9.
(6.) "I go whence I shall not return" (Job 10:21); "Make me to know mine end" (Ps 39:4); "to depart" (Php 1:23).
The grave is represented as "the gates of death" (Job 38:17; Ps 9:13; 107:18). The gloomy silence of the grave is spoken of under the figure of the "shadow of death" (Jer 2:6).
Death is the effect of sin (Heb 2:14), and not a "debt of nature." It is but once (Heb 9:27), universal (Ge 3:19), necessary (Lu 2:28-30). Jesus has by his own death taken away its sting for all his followers (1Co 15:55-57).
There is a spiritual death in trespasses and sins, i.e., the death of the soul under the power of sin (Ro 8:6; Eph 2:1,3; Col 2:13).
The "second death" (Re 2:11) is the everlasting perdition of the wicked (Re 21:8), and "second" in respect to natural or temporal death.
THE DEATH OF CHRIST is the procuring cause incidentally of all the blessings men enjoy on earth. But specially it is the procuring cause of the actual salvation of all his people, together with all the means that lead thereto. It does not make their salvation merely possible, but certain (Mt 18:11; Ro 5:10; 2Co 5:21; Ga 1:4; 3:13; Eph 1:7; 2:16; Ro 8:32-35).
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With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
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Then he took him in his arms and gave praise to God and said, Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said; read more. For my eyes have seen your salvation,
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil; read more. Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part. Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: read more. But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
So that our spirits may not be unclothed. For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Hastings
DEATH
I. In the OT.
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But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;
Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:
But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.
Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.
And the king said to her, Have no fear: what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats. They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.
And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.
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And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
And when he had gone in, he said to them, Why are you making such a noise and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping.
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There are some here who will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God come with power.
But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.
For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.
Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death. The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.
These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well. read more. Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.
Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
The last power to come to an end is death.
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works. And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Morish
This is referred to in scripture under various aspects.
1. The general appointment for sinful man
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But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
The last power to come to an end is death.
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works. And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.