1 Corinthians 15:42

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. So we will be with the Lord forever.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.