Verses about death and eternal life

The days of our years —in them seventy years, and if by strength eighty years; and their pride is suffering and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. Who knows the strength of your anger, and, according to the fear of you, your wrath? To number our days, so teach us, and we will bring a heart of wisdom.

“Make me know, YHWH, my end and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how fleeting I am. Look, as handbreadths you have made my days, and my lifetime is as nothing before you; only a vapor is every human being standing firm. Selah. Only as an image does a man walk about; only for vapor are they agitated; he heaps up and does not know who will gather it.

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit, you who do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead of your saying, If the Lord wills, we will both live and do this or that.

A human being born of woman is short of days and sated with turmoil. Like a flower he comes out and withers; he flees like the shadow and does not stand.

A voice says, “Call out.” And he said, “What shall I call out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loyal love is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of YHWH blows on it; surely the people is grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our Elohim will stand forever.”

For he knows our frame; he remembers that dust we are. A mortal, like grass are his days; like a flower of the field, so he flourishes; for a wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place no longer recognizes it.

And remember your Creator in the days of your young manhood, before the days of evil come and years arrive of which you will say, “I have no delight in them”; before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain; on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark, and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern; and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

And YHWH Elohim commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from it, for in the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.”

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death spread to all people, because all sinned—

For the pay of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

For since through a man came death, also through a man has come the resurrection of the dead. For just as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah all will be made alive.

Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha says to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die, ever. Do you believe this?”

But the angel answered the women, “Do not be afraid, you, for I know that you are seeking Jesus, who has been crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying. And go quickly and tell his disciples that ‘He has been raised from the dead, and look, he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ Look, I have told you.”

But now the Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

And when this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the word that is written will come about: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Since therefore the children share in blood and flesh, he also likewise shared in the same things, so that through death he might render powerless the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

but now has been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus the Messiah, who abolished death and brought to light life and incorruption through the good news,

knowing that the Messiah, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer is master over him.

and the living one; and I was dead, and look, I am alive to the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

For God loved the world in this way: that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, ever; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus the Messiah.

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I have written these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal times,

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession before many witnesses.

For to me to live is the Messiah, and to die is gain. But if I am to live in the flesh, this is fruit of work for me; and what I will choose I do not know. I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and to be with the Messiah, for that is far, far better; but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

For we know that if our earthly house of the tent is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For indeed in this tent we groan, longing to put on our dwelling that is from heaven, if indeed, having put it on, we will not be found naked. For indeed we who are in the tent groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to put on the other over it, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. And the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who gave us the down payment of the Spirit. So, always being of good courage and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord —for we walk by faith, not by sight— and we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are sleeping, so that you may not grieve as also the rest do who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so also God will bring with him, through Jesus, those who have fallen asleep. For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in the Messiah will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord. So comfort one another with these words.

Precious in the eyes of YHWH is the death of his faithful ones.

But I am always with you; you have grasped my right hand. With your counsel you will guide me, and afterward with glory you will take me. Whom have I in the heavens? And with you I desire nothing on earth. My body and my heart are consumed; the rock of my heart and my portion is Elohim forever.

For I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

And they were stoning Stephen as he was calling on the Lord and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling on his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And having said this, he fell asleep.

And he said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

And crying out with a loud voice, Jesus said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this, he breathed his last.