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Zechariah 1:5
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Zechariah 1:5
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5 Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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Zechariah 1:5
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Zechariah 1:5
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5 Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Ecclesiastes 12:5
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Ecclesiastes 12:5
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5 when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[a] and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;(A)
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- 12.5 Or is a burden
Ecclesiastes 12:5
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Ecclesiastes 12:5
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2 Peter 3:2-4
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2 Peter 3:2-4
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2 that you should remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles. 3 First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts(A) 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”(B)
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- 3.4 Gk our fathers fell asleep
2 Peter 3:2-4
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2 Peter 3:2-4
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2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets(A) and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.(B)
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days(C) scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.(D) 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(E) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(F)
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)
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- 12.7 Or the spirit
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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Job 14:10-12
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Job 14:10-12
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
11 As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,(B)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
or be roused out of their sleep.(C)
Job 14:10-12
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Job 14:10-12
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Hebrews 9:27
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Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)
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Hebrews 9:27
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Hebrews 7:23-24
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Hebrews 7:23-24
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23 Furthermore, the former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever.
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Hebrews 7:23-24
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Hebrews 7:23-24
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23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.(A)
Acts 13:36
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Acts 13:36
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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,(A)
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- 13.36 Gk fell asleep
Acts 13:36
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Acts 13:36
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36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep;(A) he was buried with his ancestors(B) and his body decayed.
John 8:52
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John 8:52
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52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’(A)
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John 8:52
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John 8:52
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52 At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed!(A) Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them 2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.(A) 3 This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.(B)
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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A Common Destiny for All
9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(A) 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.(B)
3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.(C) The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live,(D) and afterward they join the dead.(E)
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
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4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:4
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
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4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.(A)
Psalm 90:10
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Psalm 90:10
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10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[a] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(A)
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- 90.10 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb pride
Psalm 90:10
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Psalm 90:10
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