19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(A)for you are dust,
    and (B)to dust you shall return.”

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When (A)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
    on that very day his plans perish.

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12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till (A)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be (B)roused out of his sleep.

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For the living know that they will die, but (A)the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for (B)the memory of them is forgotten.

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The Coming of the Lord

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, (A)that you may not grieve as others do (B)who have no hope.

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13 (A)No one has (B)ascended into heaven except (C)he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:13 Some manuscripts add who is in heaven

17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are (A)Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have swerved from the truth, (B)saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.

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