Luke 20:36

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

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.

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.

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

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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

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.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

He said to me, “See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”