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. When you eat of it you will surely die.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi. (The Well of the Living One, My Beholder).
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.
It is written that the Son of man will depart. The man who betrays him will experience much grief. It would have been better if that man had not been born.
Then he told them: Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I go to wake him out of sleep.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned. Until the law sin was in the world. Sin is not imputed (put on account) when there is no law. read more. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later. But the two are not the same, because God's gift (spiritual endowment) is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his gift to so many people through the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ. And there is a difference between God's gift (spiritual endowment) and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the guilty judgment; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of righteousness. It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ. The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men. Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous. The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more. And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us!
We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.
Indeed being clothed we will not be found naked. While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.
I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.
For you 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. He who 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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You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.
Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.
The strong and valiant were plundered, they sank into sleep. None of the warriors could use his hands.
You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.
All food was disgusting to them, and they came near death's gates.
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.
They did not ask: 'Where is Jehovah who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there.'
When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet and make them drunk, that they may become jubilant. Then they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up, declares Jehovah.
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He received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said: Let your servant depart according to your word in peace. read more. My eyes have seen your salvation.
After David served his own generation by doing the will of God he died and was buried with his fathers. His body decayed.
While we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. Being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
The mind of sinful flesh (fleshly thought) means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace.
He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? Who will bring any charge against the ones God has chosen? It is God who justifies (makes righteous). read more. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
O death, where is your sting (power to hurt)? O grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. read more. But thanks to God, because he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.
Indeed being clothed we will not be found naked. While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.
He (Jesus) gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil age. This is according to the will of our God and Father.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.
We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.
So he reconciled them both in one body to God through the stake. He put to death the enmity (antagonism) (hostility).
I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.
Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.
It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by reminding you. I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.
He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'
But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part 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. When you eat of it you will surely die.
Do not turn to psychics or mediums to get help. That will make you unclean. I am Jehovah your God.
If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.
The descendants of Jacob are like specks of dust. Who can count them or number even one-fourth of the people of Israel? Let me die the death of innocent people. Let my end be like theirs.'
I set before you today life and good, death and evil.
I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.
He told me I would become pregnant and have a son. He told me: 'Do not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. This is because the boy is to be dedicated to God as a Nazirite as long as he lives.'
Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites, Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. Surely, the bitterness of death is past, Agag said.
Do not be afraid! The king said to her. What do you see? She answered: I see a spirit coming up from the earth.
Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: This is what Jehovah says: 'Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.'
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.
Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.
Look at me! Answer me, O Jehovah my God! Light up my eyes, or else I will die.
Look at me! Answer me, O Jehovah my God! Light up my eyes, or else I will die.
You do not abandon me to the grave or allow your holy one to decay.
I believe that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in this world of the living.
My heart is in turmoil within me. The terrors of death have seized me.
Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness (mercy) in the place of destruction?
If Jehovah had not been my help, I would have been silent in death.
Those who are dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do those who go into the silence of the grave.
The ropes of death became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.
I will walk in Jehovah's presence in the land of the living.
Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
Correction is severe for the person who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof will die.
I find what was worse than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her. But she will capture the sinner.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.
People will say to you: Ask for help from the mediums and the fortunetellers, who whisper and mutter. Should people ask their God for help instead? Why should they ask the dead to help the living?
The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones. All of them will greet you: 'You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us!
The Egyptians will become discouraged. I will bring their plans to nothing. They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.
If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.
Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it.
Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it.
If your hand or your foot is a cause of stumbling cut it off. Get rid of it. 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 be destroyed by eternal fire.
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These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.'
He entered and said: Why all the commotion and why do you weep. The child is not dead but sleeps.
Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'
Whoever would save his life will lose it. Whoever would lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
He continued: Truly I tell you there are some here who will in no way experience death, till they see the kingdom of God come with power.
Let the dead bury the dead. You go and publish abroad the kingdom of God. Jesus replied.
For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven that a man may eat of it and not die.
He said: I go away. You will seek me and will die in your sin. You cannot come where I go.
I said to you that you would die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins!
Truly I tell you if a man obeys my word he will never see death. The Jews said to him: Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died. And you say if a man obeys my word he will never taste of death.
We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.
When Jesus heard it he said: This sickness will not end in death. It is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
Then he told them: Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I go to wake him out of sleep. The disciples said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he would recover. read more. Jesus spoke of his death. They thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and puts active faith in me will never die. Do you believe this?
Jesus said to her: Did I not say that if you believe you shall see the glory of God?
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it?
If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14)
You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.
For this reason it says: Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.
If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:
I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep (in death). You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope.
Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.
Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love abides in death.
These men are hidden rocks in your love feasts when they feast (entertain) with you. They are shepherds that without fear feed themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds. They are autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
To the angel of the congregation 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 are alive, and you are [really] dead.
The sea gave up the dead in it. Death and the grave delivered up the dead in them. Every man was judged according to his works. Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part 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 until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?
The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14)
You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.
It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'
The sea gave up the dead in it. Death and the grave delivered up the dead in them. Every man was judged according to his works. Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.