Isaiah 38:18
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18 For (A)Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your (B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
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Psalm 6:5
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5 (A)For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will give You thanks?
Psalm 30:9
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9 “What profit is there in my blood,
When I go down to the pit?
(A)Will the dust praise You?
Will it declare Your truth?
Psalm 115:17-18
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17 (A)The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor any who go down into silence.
18 (B)But we will bless the Lord
From this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 88:10-11
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10 Will You work wonders for the dead?
Shall [a]the dead arise and praise You? Selah
11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
Footnotes
- Psalm 88:10 shades, ghosts
Luke 16:26-31
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26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, (A)‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, (B)‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, (C)neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”
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Matthew 25:46
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46 And (A)these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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Matthew 8:12
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12 But (A)the sons of the kingdom (B)will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Proverbs 14:32
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32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness,
But (A)the righteous has a refuge in his death.
Numbers 16:33
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33 So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.
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