²⁸ Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹³ But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

¹⁵ For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

⁶ 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.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

⁴⁸ What man is he who shall live and not see death, Who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

³ I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

⁴ He will wipe away from them 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."

⁵ He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

⁷ Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

¹⁷ For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

⁵⁵ "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.

⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

²⁷ Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

¹¹ This saying is faithful: For if we died with him, We will also live with him.

⁴⁶ Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.

⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

⁸ But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁹ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁶ The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

²¹ For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

² He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

¹ A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.

²⁶ Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

²⁷ She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

⁴ He will wipe away from them 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."

²⁰ For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ 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.

²³ In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

²⁴ He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'

²⁵ "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

²³ But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

²⁴ Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

²⁵ Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.