'Perishing' in the Bible

and his disciples having come to him, awoke him, saying, 'Sir, save us; we are perishing.'

And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him up and say to him, Teacher, dost thou not care that we are perishing?

They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm.

'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,