Ecclesiastes 9:4
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4 But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Isaiah 38:18
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18 (A)For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
Job 14:7-12
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7 “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and (A)its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out (B)branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and (C)where is he?
11 (D)As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till (E)the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be (F)roused out of his sleep.
Luke 16:26-29
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26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have (A)Moses and the Prophets; (B)let them hear them.’
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Lamentations 3:21-22
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21 But this I call to mind,
and (A)therefore I have hope:
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off
Job 27:8
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