Ecclesiastes 12:7

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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.”

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

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.

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

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.”

Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

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

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

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

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

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

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

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

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

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

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

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

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

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

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

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

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”