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 shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
And after the death of Abraham, it happened that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder.
Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
The Son of Man goes, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
He said these things; and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep.
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned: for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. read more. But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come; but the free gift shall not be also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the free gift shall not be as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification. For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to 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. But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus 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 our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who 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 your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.
The stouthearted have been stripped; they slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.
You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Their soul hates all kinds of food; and they draw near the gates of death.
then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.
For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
even he received Him in his arms and blessed God, and said, Lord, now You will let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word. read more. For my eyes have seen Your Salvation
For after he had served his own generation by the will of God, David fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.
For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies. read more. Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also who is raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the strength 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 of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.
who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");
In Him 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 once dead in trespasses and sins,
among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,
But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder, knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.
But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Hastings
DEATH
I. In the OT.
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but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
You shall not turn to mediums, and you shall not seek to spirit-knowers to be defiled by them. I am Jehovah your God.
And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Behold! I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,
I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,
But He said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
And Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him daintily. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. For what did you see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Set your house in order, for you shall 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 He shall rise on the earth at the last;
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me.
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do any who go down into silence.
The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow.
I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof shall die.
and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
And when they shall say to you, Seek to the mediums and to wizards who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to their God, than for the living to the dead?
Hell from below is moved for you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, all the he-goats of the earth. It has raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All of them shall speak and say to you, Are you also as weak as we? Are you like us?
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy its wisdom. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the future-tellers.
And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.
Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.
Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.
And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw them from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.
And going in He said to them, Why do you make a tumult and weep? The girl is not dead, but sleeps.
For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death."
For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel's, he shall save it.
And He said to them, Truly I say to you that there are some of those who stand here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God come with power.
Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
This is the Bread which comes down from Heaven, so that a man may eat of it and not die.
Then Jesus said again to them, I go away, and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.
Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.
Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man keeps My Word, he shall never see death. Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets are dead, and you say, If a man keeps my Word, he shall never taste of death.
I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
When Jesus heard, He said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified by it.
He said these things; and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep. Then His disciples said, Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well. read more. But Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He had spoken of taking rest in sleep.
Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life! He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?
Jesus answered her, Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:
Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The last enemy made to cease is death.
And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,
(even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you; feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds being carried about by winds; fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;
And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things. I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.
And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning 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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But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The last enemy made to cease is death.
And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,
(even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.
And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.