Job 17:14
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14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)
Psalm 16:10
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10 For you do not give me up to Sheol
or let your faithful one see the Pit.(A)
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
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53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”(A)
1 Corinthians 15:42
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42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
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Acts 13:34-37
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34 “As to his raising him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way,
‘I will give you the holy promises made to David.’(A)
35 “Therefore he has also said in another psalm,
‘You will not let your Holy One experience corruption.’(B)
36 “For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died,[a] was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,(C) 37 but he whom God raised up experienced no corruption.
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- 13.36 Gk fell asleep
Acts 2:27-31
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27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades
or let your Holy One experience corruption.(A)
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
29 “Fellow Israelites,[a] I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.(B) 30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.(C) 31 Foreseeing this, David[b] spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah,[c] saying,
‘He was not abandoned to Hades,
nor did his flesh experience corruption.’(D)
Isaiah 14:11
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11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
and the sound of your harps;
maggots are the bed beneath you,
and worms are your covering.(A)
Psalm 49:9
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9 that one should live on forever
and never see the Pit.(A)
Job 30:30
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30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(A)
Job 24:20
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20 The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.(A)
Job 21:32-33
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32 When they are carried to the grave,
a watch is kept over their tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to them;
everyone will follow after,
and those who went before are innumerable.(A)
Job 21:26
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26 They lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms cover them.(A)
Job 13:28
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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)
Job 19:26
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26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(A)
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