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.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (A)do it with your might,[a] (B)for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Or finds to do with your might, do it
Psalm 6:5
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5 For in (A)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?
Psalm 30:9
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9 “What profit is there in my death,[a]
if I go down to the pit?[b]
Will (A)the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
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- Psalm 30:9 Hebrew in my blood
- Psalm 30:9 Or to corruption
Psalm 115:17-18
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17 (A)The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any who go down into (B)silence.
18 But (C)we will bless the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.
(D)Praise the Lord!
Psalm 88:10-11
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10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
(A)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Luke 16:26-31
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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.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, (C)father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear (D)Moses and the Prophets, (E)neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
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Matthew 25:46
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46 And these will go away (A)into eternal punishment, but the righteous (B)into (C)eternal life.”
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Matthew 8:12
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12 (A)while the sons of the kingdom (B)will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place (C)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Proverbs 14:32
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32 (A)The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,
but (B)the righteous finds refuge in his death.
Numbers 16:33
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33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and (A)they perished from the midst of the assembly.
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