73 Bible Verses about The Dead

In Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

You who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

I have hope toward God, which they also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.

The people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. They lifted their voices and wept bitterly.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

Asa was buried in the rock tomb that he had carved out for himself in David's City. They used spices and perfumed oils to prepare his body for burial. They built a huge bonfire to mourn his death.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor. No man knows his burial place to this day.

He laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone in front of the door of the tomb, and departed.

Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.

His servants brought him in a chariot to Jerusalem. They buried him in a tomb with his ancestors in the City of David.

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. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. We tell you this by God's Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep. read more.
For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first. We that are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so will we ever be with the Lord. Comfort one another with these words.

A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived at Bethany where his sisters Mary and Martha lived. This is the same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick. The sisters therefore sent for the Lord, They said: The one for whom you have great affection is sick. read more.
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. Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he heard the news he stayed where he was for two days. After this he said to the disciples: Let us go to Judea again. The disciples said: Rabbi, the Jews were seeking to stone you and you go there? Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. 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. Jesus spoke of his death. They thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus said plainly: Lazarus is dead! I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, for it will help you believe. Let us go to him. Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go that we may die with him. When Jesus arrived he found Lazarus had been in the grave four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother. Martha went out to meet Jesus and Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus: Lord if you had been here my brother would not have died. Even now I know that what ever you ask of God he will give it to you. Jesus replied: Your brother will rise again. Martha exclaimed: I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 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? She said: Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who is to come into the world. After she said this she went away and secretly called her sister Mary. She said: The teacher is here and calls you. Mary got up quickly and went to him. (Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village and was still at the place where Martha met him.) The Jews were with her in the house, consoling her. They saw Mary get up quickly and leave. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary saw Jesus she fell down at his feet. She said: Lord; if you had been here my brother would not have died. Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping. He asked: Where have you laid him? They answered: Come and see Lord. Jesus wept. The Jews therefore said: Look how deeply he loved him! Some of them said: This man opened the eyes of the blind. Could he have prevented this man from dying? Again Jesus groaned in himself. He went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against it. Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man said: Lord by now the body has decayed for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her: Did I not say that if you believe you shall see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said: Father, I thank you that you hear me. I knew that you always hear me. But because of the crowd that stands here I said it, that they may believe that you did send me. After he finished he cried out loud: Lazarus, come out! He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

After Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices so they could anoint him. They went to the tomb when the sun had risen. It was very early. They asked each other who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb? read more.
The stone was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back. They entered the tomb. They were amazed at what they saw. A young man dressed in a white robe was sitting on the right side of the tomb. He said to them: Do not be amazed. Jesus the Nazarene, who has been impaled, is not here. He has risen. Behold, the place where they laid him! Go tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him just as he told you. They fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone for they were afraid. (Verses through She told those who had been with him, for they mourned and wept. When they heard that he was alive and she had seen him they did not believe it. After this two of them saw him in another form as they walked, on their way into the country. They went to tell the rest. They didn't believe them, either. Afterward he was revealed to the eleven as they sat at the table. He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

It was early in the morning on the first day of the week. They went to the tomb with the spices that they had prepared. The stone was rolled away from the tomb. When they entered they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. read more.
They were perplexed about what had happened. Two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. This frightened them and they bowed down prostrate on the ground. The two men said to them: Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here. He has arisen! Remember how he spoke to you when he was yet in Galilee. He said the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be impaled, and the third day rise again. They remembered his words. When they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest. They were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them. They told these things to the apostles. These words seemed to be idle talk and they did not believe them. Peter ran to the tomb. Looking inside he saw the linen cloths by themselves. He departed to his home, wondering about that which occurred. That day two of them traveled to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They talked between themselves about all the things that happened. While they talked and discussed together Jesus came near and walked with them. But their eyes did not permit them to recognize him. He asked: What are you talking about with each other as you walk? They stopped walking and were sad. The one named Cleopas answered him: Do you travel alone in Jerusalem and not know the things that have happened there these days? He asked: What things? They said to him: The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene. He was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death. They impaled him! We hoped he would redeem Israel. Yes and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Some of the women of our company stunned us. They went to the tomb early. They did not find his body. They said that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Others with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women said. He was not there! He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Did the Christ need to suffer these things and enter into his glory? He explained to them all the Scriptures about the things concerning him. He spoke about Moses and all the prophets. They approached the village where they were going and he appeared to be going further. They persuaded him not to go saying, Abide with us. It is nearly evening and the day is almost gone. He stayed with them. When he had sat down with them to eat he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it he gave to them. Their eyes were opened and they knew him. Then he vanished out of their sight. They said to each other: Were our hearts not burning within us? When he spoke to us in the way and opened the scriptures to us? They rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven gathered together with others. The Lord has risen indeed, they said, and he appeared to Simon. And they told the things that happened in the way, how they recognized him when he broke the bread. As they spoke these things he stood in their midst and said: May you have peace. But they were afraid and supposed that they saw a spirit. He said to them, Why are you troubled? And why do you question in your hearts? See my hands and my feet that it is I. Touch me and see. A spirit does not have flesh and bones like I have. When he said this he showed them his hands and his feet. While they still did not believe him but were filled with joy and wonder, he asked for something to eat. They gave him a piece of a broiled fish. He took it and ate it in front of them. He said: These are my words that I spoke to you, while I was yet with you. All things must be fulfilled. They are things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me. He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures. He said: It is written that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day.

Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying.

Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.

Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come!

Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.

David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.

It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

Asa was buried in the rock tomb that he had carved out for himself in David's City. They used spices and perfumed oils to prepare his body for burial. They built a huge bonfire to mourn his death.

Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin.

They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

Asa was buried in the rock tomb that he had carved out for himself in David's City. They used spices and perfumed oils to prepare his body for burial. They built a huge bonfire to mourn his death.

Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin.

They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.

The napkin that was on his head was not with the linen clothes. It was rolled up by itself.

The young men arose, covered him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

The people were sent away. He went to the girl, took hold of her hand, and she got up.

He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

He who was dead sat up and spoke and he was returned to his mother.

Peter put them all outside, kneeled down, and prayed. He turned to the body and said: Tabitha, rise! She opened her eyes. When she saw Peter, she sat up.

The people took the young man home alive for they were greatly comforted.

He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.

The napkin that was on his head was not with the linen clothes. It was rolled up by itself.

The young men arose, covered him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'

Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping.

Isaac responded: Your brother deceived me. He has taken your blessing.

A sound was heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is weeping for her children. She would not be comforted, because they were dead.

All the fighting men marched all night and took the dead bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They came back to Jabesh and burned the bodies.

Joshua said: Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day. All Israel stoned them with stones. After they stoned them they burned them with fire.

He killed all the priests of the high places on the altars. Their bones were burned on the altars. Then the king went back to Jerusalem.

When a man's uncle takes the body to be burned and brings the bones out of the house he will say to the innermost parts of the house: 'Is there yet any one here?' And he will say, 'No.' Then he will say: 'Hold your peace. We may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

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.

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.

He went on his way. A lion met him on the road and jumped him and killed him. His dead body was stretched in the road with the donkey by its side. The lion was by the body.

Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.

But your bodies will drop dead in this desert. Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.

While they were burying a dead man they saw a band coming. They put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was. The dead man's body touched Elisha's bones. The man came to life again and got up on his feet.

Jehovah listened to the voice of Elijah. The child began to breath and came back to life.

Then he lay down on the boy, placing his mouth, eyes, and hands on the boy's mouth, eyes, and hands. As he lay stretched out over the boy, the boy's body started to get warm. Elisha got up and walked around the room. He returned and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes. Elisha called Gehazi and told him to call the boy's mother. When she came in, he said to her: Take your son!

Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.

Whoever is outdoors and touches someone who was killed or has died naturally or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave will be unclean for seven days.

Those who touch a corpse and do not purify themselves remain unclean. This is because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile Jehovah's tent, and they will no longer be considered God's people.

Jacob told his sons: Soon I will die. I want you to bury me in Machpelah Cave.

Promise me that you will take my body with you when God leads you to that land.

I said to the king: May the king live a very long time. My face should look sad for the town where my fathers are buried is devastated. It has been destroyed by fire.

They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

We grope like blind men along a wall. We grope like people without eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were evening. We are like dead people among the living.

For the enemy has persecuted me. He has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

Even so, faith without works is dead. It is alone and by itself!

Just as the body without the spirit is dead; even so faith without works is dead.

She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.

She poured this ointment on my body to prepare me for burial.

He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.

Then he took his last breath and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

when a storm swept in from the desert. It blew the house down and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.

She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.

She poured this ointment on my body to prepare me for burial.

He that was dead came out. He was bound hand and foot with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus commanded them: Unwrap him and let him go.

Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus.

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.

Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Out of all the people on the face of the earth Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His own possession.

Whoever is outdoors and touches someone who was killed or has died naturally or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave will be unclean for seven days.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. Thus he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

Jehovah gave Moses these instructions for Aaron's sons, the priests: Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So do not go near a dead relative, except for your mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or an unmarried sister, who has no husband to take care of her.

A priest must not make himself unclean by going near a dead body. But a priest may become unclean if the dead person is his father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or unmarried sister.

When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

The guards shook with fear and became as dead men.

Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back.

On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.

I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.

They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

You will die peacefully. People will burn funeral fires for you as they did for your ancestors, the kings who lived before you.' They will say: Oh, master, as they mourn for you. I have spoken my word, declares Jehovah.''

David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

My heart cries sadly for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. It cries like a flute for the people from Kir Hareseth. The money they made has all been taken away.

Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.

A person who is clean will take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and all the people who were in the tent with the dead body. He must also sprinkle any person who has touched a human bone or a grave and any person who has touched someone who has been killed or who has died naturally.

They must purify themselves with the water for purification on the third day and on the seventh day. Then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on both the third and the seventh day, they will not be clean.

They are now dead and they live no more. The deceased do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin. You wiped out all memory (memorial) (commemoration) of them.

There were seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no children, left his wife to his brother.

God appeared to the king in a dream and said: You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.

Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

It happened that night. Jehovah's angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. The next morning the Judeans saw all the corpses.

The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.

Both great and small men will die in this land. They will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

The house of the ruler of the synagogue was filled with commotion. Many were weeping and wailing.

I have hope toward God, which they also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

The priest who is anointed with oil and wears the chief priest's clothes is chief over his brothers. He must never mourn by leaving his hair uncombed or by tearing his clothes. He must not go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.

I have not eaten of it while mourning. I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

I have not eaten of it while mourning. I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come! Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us. Let our eyes shed tears and our eyelids flow with water.

The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.

Their love, their hatred, and their envy, is now gone, perished! They do not share anything that is done under the sun.

Here are your instructions for when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who goes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean for seven days. Every container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.

Saul ordered his officials: Find me a woman who is a medium. I will go and consult her. There is one in Endor, they answered. Saul disguised himself. He put on different clothes. After dark he went with two of his men to see the woman. Consult the spirits for me and tell me what is going to happen, he said to her: Call up the spirit of the man I name.

Joab sent someone to Tekoa to get a wise woman from there. He told her: Please act like a mourner. Dress in mourning clothes. Do not use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

David held his hands over his face and kept on crying loudly. My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!

Men will not break bread in mourning for them in order to comfort anyone for the dead. Nor will they give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

Men will not break bread in mourning for them in order to comfort anyone for the dead. Nor will they give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

While they are dedicated to Jehovah as Nazirites, they must never go near a dead body. Even if their own father, mother, brother, or sister dies, they must not make themselves unclean by going near them. Nazarites show their vow to God with their long hair.

A sound was heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is weeping for her children. She would not be comforted, because they were dead.

Those who are dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do those who go into the silence of the grave.

They joined in worshiping the god Baal while they were at Peor. They ate what was sacrificed to the dead.

I will go to Egypt with you. I will make sure you come back again. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.

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?

Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean from touching a dead body.

Just as the body without the spirit is dead; even so faith without works is dead.

Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.

On the way she said to them: Go back home and stay with your mothers. Jehovah should be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

He who has died is freed from sin.

Those who are dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do those who go into the silence of the grave.

The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten. Their love, their hatred, and their envy, is now gone, perished! They do not share anything that is done under the sun.

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.