Thematic Bible: After death


Thematic Bible





[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'


because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.

They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.

all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

so that he may stay alive forever [and] not see the pit.

You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.

I went down to the foundations of [the] mountains; the Underworld--its bars [were] around me forever. But you brought up my life from [the] pit, Yahweh my God.

[by] having foreseen [this], he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.

But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.' Therefore he also says in another [psalm], 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.' For David, [after] serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with} his fathers, and experienced decay. read more.
But he whom God raised up did not experience decay.

Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.