Ecclesiastes 3:20

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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.

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.”

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

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

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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.”

So Job died, being old and full of days.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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.

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:

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.”

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.”

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

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.

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

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

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

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.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

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.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

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

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.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

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

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

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.

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.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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?

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

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.”

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

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

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

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.

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

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