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, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Having said that he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world; but the sin was not imputed, there being no law. read more. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even in those that did not sin after the manner of the rebellion of Adam, who is a figure of him that was to come. But not as the offense, so also is the gift. For if through the offense of that one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one man, Jesus the Christ, has abounded unto many. Nor was it in the same manner as by one sin, likewise also the gift; for the judgment truly came of one sin unto condemnation, but grace came of many offenses unto justification. For if by one offense, death reigned because of one man; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ. Therefore, in the same manner that by the iniquity of one guilt came upon all men unto condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, grace came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.
who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if so be that we shall be found clothed and not naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, for we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon with life swallowing up that which is mortal.
For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:
For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love his brother 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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in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.
The stouthearted are spoiled; they have slept their sleep; and nothing was found in the hands of the men of might.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.
Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
Neither did they say, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
then he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now let thy slave depart in peace, according to thy word, read more. for mine eyes have seen thy saving health,
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;
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled with God by the death of his Son, much more, now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
For the prudence of the flesh is death, but the prudence of the Spirit, life and peace,
He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also give us all things with him? Who shall accuse the chosen of God's? God is he that justifies them. read more. Who is he that condemns them? Christ, Jesus, is he who died and, even more, he that also rose again, who furthermore is at the right hand of God, who also makes entreaty for us. Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? 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 earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if so be that we shall be found clothed and not naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, for we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon with life swallowing up that which is mortal.
who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver 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, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree),
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace,
And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.
and to reconcile both with God by the cross in one body, having slain the enmity thereby;
For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:
And you, being dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,
And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
Because I have the right (as long as I am in this tabernacle) to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.
He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the congregations ; He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, 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, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.
Do not return unto spiritists or seek after diviners, to be defiled by them. I AM your God.
And the person that turns after spiritists or after diviners to prostitute themselves after them, I will even set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Who shall count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,
but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Then Samuel said, Bring me Agag, the king of Amalek. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is near.
And the king said unto her, Do not be afraid. What didst thou see? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods rising out of the land.
In those days Hezekiah became sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came to him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,
For thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol; neither wilt thou suffer thy Merciful One to see corruption.
I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Shall thy wonder be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have quickly dwelt with the dead.
The dead shall not praise JAH, neither any that go down into silence.
The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of Sheol found me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.
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.
For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.
Chastening is grievous unto him that forsakes the way, but he that hates reproof shall die.
and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto spiritists and unto wizards that peep and that mutter; shall the people not seek unto their God? Shall we appeal for the living unto the dead?
Sheol from beneath is aghast at thee; it stirs up the dead to meet thee at thy coming; it has raised up from their thrones all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the Gentiles. They all shall shout and say unto thee, Art thou also become sick as we? Art thou become like unto us?
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers and to the spiritists and to the wizards.
Therefore if thy right eye should bring thee occasion to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Enter ye in at the narrow gate, for the way that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and those who follow it are many;
Enter ye in at the narrow gate, for the way that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and those who follow it are many;
Therefore if thy hand or thy foot cause thee to fall, cut them off and cast them from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire.
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
And they shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
And when he was come in, he said unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleeps.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Whosoever curses father or mother shall most definitely die.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
He also said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there are some of those who are here who shall not taste of death until they have seen the kingdom of God which comes with power.
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and declare the kingdom of God.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Then Jesus said again unto them, I am going away, and ye shall seek me, but ye shall die in your sins; where I go, ye shall not be able to come.
Therefore I said unto you that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye do not believe that I AM, ye shall die in your sins.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If anyone keeps my word, he shall not see death forever. 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?
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Having said that he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. Then his disciples said, Lord, if he sleeps, he shall be saved. read more. But Jesus had spoken of his death, and they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, though he is dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Jesus said unto her, Did I not say unto thee that if thou wouldest believe thou shalt see the glory of God?
Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.
No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?
Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)
Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
And you, being dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love his brother abides in death.
These are spots in your banquets of charity, feeding themselves without any fear whatsoever: clouds without water, carried to and fro of the winds; trees withered as in fall, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
And unto the angel of the congregation in Sardis write; These things, saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and the judgment of each one was according to their works. And Hades and death were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, 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 in those that did not sin after the manner of the rebellion of Adam, who is a figure of him that was to come.
For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)
And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the congregations ; He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and the judgment of each one was according to their works. And Hades and death were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And Hades and death were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.