Death/Dead God Alone Can Inflict Death MAT 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. JAM 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art you that judge another? Death The Necessary Consequence of Sin ROM 6:16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? JAM 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. The Portion of the Wicked is Death MAT 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: MAT 25:42 For I was hungry, and you gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink: MAT 25:43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not. MAT 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? MAT 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me. MAT 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. ROM 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Saints Shall Escape Death REV 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death. REV 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of The Messiah, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Self Righteousness Leads to Death PRO 14:12 There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Death Shall be Inflicted by The Messiah MAT 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: MAT 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 2TH 1:7 And to you who are troubled r with us, when the Lord Yeshua shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 2TH 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Yeshua The Messiah: Strive to Preserve Others From Death JAM 5:20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. The Wages of Sin Is Death ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Yeshua The Messiah our Lord. The way to Death, Described PSA 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. MAT 7:13 Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Natural Death Abolished by The Messiah 2TI 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Yeshua The Messiah, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: All Shall Be Raised From Natural Death ACT 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. The Messiah Delivers From the Fear of Natural Death HEB 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Natural Death Conquered by The Messiah ROM 6:9 Knowing that The Messiah being raised from the dead dies no more; death hath no more dominion over him. REV 1:18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Natural Death Described as a Sleep DEU 31:16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, you will sleep with you fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. JOH 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Natural Death The Lot Of All ECC 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. HEB 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Natural Death Ordered by GOD DEU 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. JOB 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, you hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Pray to be Prepared for Natural Death PSA 39:4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. PSA 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSA 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Prepare for Death 2KI 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. Regard Death as at Hand JOB 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. JOB 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not. PSA 39:4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. PSA 39:5 Behold, you hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his b state is altogether vanity. Selah. PSA 90:9 For all our days are passed away in you wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 1PE 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: Death of the Wicked Frequently Marked By Terror JOB 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. JOB 18:12 His strength shall be hunger bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. JOB 18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. JOB 18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. JOB 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. JOB 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not. JOB 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a temp steals him away in the night. JOB 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place. PSA 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. Death of the Wicked Frequently Sudden And Unexpected JOB 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. JOB 21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. JOB 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place. PRO 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. God Has No Pleasure in the Death of the Wicked EZE 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? EZE 18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to All the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. EZE 18:25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? EZE 18:26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. EZE 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. EZE 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. EZE 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? EZE 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. EZE 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? EZE 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Punishment Follows the Death of the Wicked ISA 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet thee at you coming: it stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ACT 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. Death of the Wicked is Without Hope PRO 11:7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes. All Offerings to The Dead are forbidden DEU 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that you hast commanded me. The Dead Characterized By Absence of All Human Passions ECC 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. The Dead Characterized By Being Incapable of Motion MAT 28:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. REV 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: The Dead Characterized By Being Without the Spirit JAM 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. The Dead Characterized By Ignorance of All Human Affairs ECC 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. The Dead Characterized By Inability to Glorify God PSA 115:17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. Even Bones of The Dead Caused Uncleanness NUM 9:16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 2CH 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. Heathenish Expressions of Grief For The Dead Forbidden LEV 19:28 you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. DEU 14:1 you are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. DEU 14:2 For you art an holy people unto the Lord you God, and the Lord hath chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. High Priest In No Case To Mourn For The Dead LEV 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; LEV 21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Idolaters Consecrated Part of Their Crops to The Dead DEU 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that you hast commanded me. Idolaters Invoked and Consulted The Dead 1SA 28:7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. 1SA 28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. Idolaters Offered Sacrifices For The Dead PSA 106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Idolaters Tore Themselves For The Dead JER 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Illustrated Of Diviners, etc. ISA 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Faith Without Works Is Dead 1TI 5:6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. JAM 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. JAM 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Freedom From the Law ROM 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of The Messiah; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Freedom From the Power of Sin ROM 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. ROM 6:8 Now if we be dead with The Messiah, we believe that we shall also live with him: ROM 6:9 Knowing that The Messiah being raised from the dead dies no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ROM 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God. ROM 6:11 Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Yeshua The Messiah our Lord. COL 3:3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with The Messiah in God. Impotence GEN 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you art but a dead man, for the woman which you hast taken; for she is a man's wife. ROM 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: Man's State by Nature 2CO 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. EPH 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; EPH 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with The Messiah, by grace you are saved; A State of Deep Affliction, etc. PSA 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from you hand. PSA 88:6 You hast laid me in the low pit, in darkness, in the deeps. PSA 143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. ISA 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. The Dead in a House, Rendered it Unclean NUM 19:14 This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. NUM 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. Instances of the Dead Restored by The Messiah, etc. MAT 9:25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. LUK 7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. JOH 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Yeshua saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. ACT 9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ACT 20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. Instances of Restored Life Before The Messiah 1KI 17:22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 2KI 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 2KI 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 2KI 4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up you son. 2KI 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. The Jews Looked for a Resurrection From The Dead ISA 26:19 you dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for you dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ACT 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. Mourning for The Dead Often Hired by Mourners JER 9:17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: JER 9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. AMO 5:16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Mourning for The Dead Often Lasted for Days GEN 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. GEN 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. GEN 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. Mourning for The Dead Often Loud and Clamorous JER 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: MAR 5:38 And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. Mourning for The Dead Often Testified by Change of Apparel 2SA 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: Mourning for The Dead Often Testified by Covering the Head 2SA 19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! Mourning for The Dead Often Testified by Rending the Garments GEN 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 2SA 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier. Mourning for The Dead Often Testified by Tearing the Hair JER 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Mourning for The Dead Often Very Great GEN 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. JER 31:15 Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. MAT 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. JOH 11:33 When Yeshua therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. The Dead Return Not Unto This Life JOB 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more. JOB 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. JOB 14:10 But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the Ghost, and where is he? JOB 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up: JOB 14:12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. JOB 14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! JOB 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Too soon Forgotten PSA 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ECC 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Death Eternal Called Damnation of Hell MAT 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Death Eternal Called Destruction 2TH 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Death Eternal Called Everlasting Punishment MAT 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Death Eternal Called Perishing 2PE 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; Death Eternal Called a Resurrection to Damnation JOH 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Death Eternal Called a Resurrection to Shame Etc. DAN 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Death Eternal Called The Wrath to Come 1TH 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Yeshua, which delivered us from the wrath to come. The Messiah The Only Way To Escape From Death JOH 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso ever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. JOH 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. ACT 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Described as Banishment From God 2TH 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Described as Indignation, Wrath, Etc. ROM 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, ROM 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Described as a Lake of Fire REV 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. REV 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Described as A Mist of Darkness Forever 2PE 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Described as Outer Darkness MAT 25:30 And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Described as Society with the Devil MAT 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: Described as the Worm That Dies Not MAR 9:44 Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.