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 you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die."
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."
After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of death's shadow?
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about 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."
He said this, and then He told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on My way to wake him up."
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned. In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to one's account when there is no law. read more. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ. And the gift is not like the one man's sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification. Since by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone. For just as through one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us; we have placed our hope in Him that He will deliver us again.
For we know that if our earthly house, a tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. Indeed, we who are in this tent groan, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ-which is far better-
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains 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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You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of death's shadow?
Be gracious to me, Lord; consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death,
"Lord, reveal to me the end of my life and the number of my days. Let me know how transitory I am.
The brave-hearted have been plundered; they have slipped into their [final] sleep. None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
They loathed all food and came near the gates of death.
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
They stopped asking: Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. [This is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration.
For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.]
Simeon took Him up in his arms, praised God, and said: Now, Master, You can dismiss Your slave in peace, according to Your word. read more. For my eyes have seen Your salvation.
For David, after serving his own generation in God's plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, [then how] much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!
For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.
He did not even spare His own Son, but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything? Who can bring an accusation against God's elect? God is the One who justifies. read more. Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the One who died, but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? Now 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 our earthly house, a tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. Indeed, we who are in this tent groan, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung 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 your trespasses and sins
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and by nature we were children under wrath, as the others were also.
[He did this so] that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.
I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ-which is far better-
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.
Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, He also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death-that is, the Devil-
And just as it is appointed for people to die once-and after this, judgment-
I consider it right, as long as I am in this tent, to wake you up with a reminder, knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.
"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.
But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars-their share 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 you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die."
"Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
"Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.
Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered the dust clouds of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my [life] be like theirs.
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
He said to me, 'You will conceive and give birth to a son. Therefore, do not drink wine or other alcoholic beverages, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth until the day of his death.' "
Samuel said, "Bring me Agag king of Amalek." Agag came to him trembling, for he thought, "Certainly the bitterness of death has come."
But the king said to her, "Don't be afraid. What do you see?" "I see a spirit form coming up out of the earth," the woman answered.
In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: 'Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.' "
There the wicked cease to make trouble, and there the weary find rest.
But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last.
Be gracious to me, Lord; consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death,
Consider me and answer, Lord, my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death,
Consider me and answer, Lord, my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death,
For You will not abandon me to Sheol; You will not allow Your Faithful One to see the Pit.
I am certain that I will see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living.
My heart shudders within me; terrors of death sweep over me.
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
It is not the dead who praise the Lord, nor any of those descending into the silence [of death].
The ropes of death were wrapped around me, and the torments of Sheol overcame me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
The wicked are thrown down by their own sin, but the righteous have a refuge when they die.
Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Whatever your hands find to do, do with [all] your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
Whatever your hands find to do, do with [all] your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
When they say to you, "Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter," shouldn't a people consult their God? [Should they consult] the dead on behalf of the living?
Sheol below is eager to greet your coming. He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you- all the rulers of the earth. He makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. They all respond to you, saying: "You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us!
Egypt's spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will seek idols, ghosts, spirits of the dead, and spiritists.
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
"Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.
"Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.
If your hand or your foot causes your downfall, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.
For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.]
"And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
He went in and said to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."
For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.
Then He said to them, "I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power."
But He told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God."
"For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
"I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Then He said to them again, "I'm going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I'm going, you cannot come."
Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [He], you will die in your sins."
I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death-ever!" Then the Jews said, "Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death-ever!'
We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.
When Jesus heard it, He said, "This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
He said this, and then He told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on My way to wake him up." Then the disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well." read more. Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die-ever. Do you believe this?"
Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The last enemy to be abolished is death.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. By grace you are saved!
for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.
If you died with Christ to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, He also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death-that is, the Devil-
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn-fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;
"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: "The One who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.
Then the sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead; all were judged according to their works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars-their share 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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Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
The last enemy to be abolished is death.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. By grace you are saved!
And just as it is appointed for people to die once-and after this, judgment-
"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.
Then the sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead; all were judged according to their works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars-their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."