34 Bible Verses about Afterlife
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A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened: And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded, And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.read more.
And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried; And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he having called out, said, Father Abraham, pity me, and send Lazarus, that he might dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all these, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed: so that they wishing to pass through thence to you could not; neither could they cross over from thence to us. And he said, Then I ask thee, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he might testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if some one from the dead go to them, they will change the mind. And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither if any rise from the dead, will they be persueded.
Thy dead shall live, with my corpse shall they rise. Awake and shout, ye dwelling in dust: for the dew of brightness is thy dew, and the land of the shades shall fall.
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.
And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
His spirit shall go forth, he shall turn back to his earth; in that day his thoughts perished.
The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them. And the heifer and the bear shall feed together, and their young shall lie down; and the lion shall eat straw as the ox. And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's deu the weaned directed his hand.read more.
They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters covering to the sea.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
For in death none remembering thee: in hades who shall give thanks to thee?
If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.
And it will be in her soul going forth (for she will die) and she will call his name the son of my strength: and his father called him the son of the right hand.
For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten. Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.
See ye now, that I, I am he, And no God with me: I will kill, and I will preserve alive; I struck through and through, and I will heal; And none takes away out of my hand.
Jehovah killing and giving life; bringing down to hades and bringing up.
And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.
And the woman will say, Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he will say, Bring up to me Samuel
And he living, and I was dead; and, behold, I am living for the times of times, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death.
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:
And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
For a fire was kindled in mine anger. And it shall burn to the lowest hades, And it shall consume the land and its produce, And it shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.
Hades from beneath was moved for thee to meet thy coming: it roused the shades for thee, all the leaders of the earth: it raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they will answer and say to thee, Also thou wert weak as we; thou wert made like to us. Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of the slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had: And they cried with a great voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood of them dwelling upon earth And to each were given white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till also their fellowservants be filled up, about to be killed, as also they.
And that the dead are raised, Moses made known at the bramble, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And he is not God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.
And I knew he redeeming me lived, and at last he shall rise up upon the dust: And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God: Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.
For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And it will be they went, going speaking, and behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and they will separate between them two; and Elijah will up in a tempest to the heavens.
And die in the mountain which thou earnest there, and be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount for and was gathered to his people:
And Abraham shall expire, and shall die in a good old age, and being. filled; and he shall be added to his people.
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit: In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison; They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.