Psalm 89:48
New Living Translation
48 No one can live forever; all will die.
No one can escape the power of the grave.[a] Interlude
Footnotes
- 89:48 Hebrew of Sheol.
Psalm 49:15
New Living Translation
15 But as for me, God will redeem my life.
He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude
Hebrews 11:5
New Living Translation
5 It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.”[a] For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God.
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John 8:51
New Living Translation
51 I tell you the truth, anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!”
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
New Living Translation
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
New Living Translation
5 The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered.
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Job 30:23
New Living Translation
23 And I know you are sending me to my death—
the destination of all who live.
Acts 2:27
New Living Translation
27 For you will not leave my soul among the dead[a]
or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
New Living Translation
8 None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue the wicked.
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Psalm 49:7-9
New Living Translation
7 Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death[a]
by paying a ransom to God.
8 Redemption does not come so easily,
for no one can ever pay enough
9 to live forever
and never see the grave.
Footnotes
- 49:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts read no one can redeem the life of another.
Psalm 22:29
New Living Translation
29 Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
Bow before him, all who are mortal,
all whose lives will end as dust.
Hebrews 9:27
New Living Translation
27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
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2 Corinthians 4:14
New Living Translation
14 We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus,[a] will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
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- 4:14 Some manuscripts read who raised Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
New Living Translation
19 For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe[a] and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless! 20 Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.
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- 3:19 Or both have the same spirit.
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