So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain, in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced; read more.
also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets; or ever the silver cord is not loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern; then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death

Genesis 3:19

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. Verse Concepts

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister! Verse Concepts

Psalm 16:10

For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption. Verse Concepts

Acts 2:27

because You will not leave My soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your holy One to see corruption. Verse Concepts

Job 21:26

They lie down together in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. Verse Concepts

Job 34:15

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust. Verse Concepts

Psalm 49:9

yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption. Verse Concepts

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. Verse Concepts

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again. Verse Concepts

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Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. Verse Concepts

Acts 2:31

seeing this beforehand, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor would His flesh see corruption, Verse Concepts

Acts 13:34-37

And that He raised Him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He spoke in this way: "I will give you the holy promises of David." Therefore he also says in another psalm, "You shall not allow Your Holy One to see corruption." 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. read more.
But He whom God raised again saw no corruption.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 15:50

And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Verse Concepts

Dust » Man made from

Genesis 2:7

Genesis 3:19

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. Verse Concepts

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our form; He remembers that we are dust. Verse Concepts

Job 34:15

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust. Verse Concepts

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again. Verse Concepts

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes. Verse Concepts

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again? Verse Concepts

Immortality » Of the soul

Luke 12:20

Matthew 10:28

Revelation 20:4

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Verse Concepts

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory. Verse Concepts

Man » The spirit of man

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own, for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Verse Concepts

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear? Verse Concepts

Man's » Immortality » Of the soul

Luke 12:20

Matthew 10:28

Revelation 20:4

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory. Verse Concepts

Select readings » Old age

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them. So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain, in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened, read more.
and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced; also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets; or ever the silver cord is not loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern; then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Soul » Immortal

Luke 12:20

Matthew 10:28

Revelation 20:4

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory. Verse Concepts