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 tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."
After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him."
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. read more. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides 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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By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
before I go--and I shall not return-- to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
"O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
They did not say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'
While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.
he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, "Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; read more. for my eyes have seen your salvation
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. read more. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. read more. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"--
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
I think it right, as long as I am in this body,to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Hastings
DEATH
I. In the OT.
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
"Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.
"If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."
The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.'"
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any who go down into silence.
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.
And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. All of them will answer and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'
and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping."
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power."
And Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins."
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him." The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." read more. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned--
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations--
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
These are hidden reefsat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, 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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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."