LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is (Psalm 39:4).
As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more (Psalm 103:15,16).
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return (Genesis 3:19).
And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last (Luke 23:46).
But He [Jesus] took her by the hand and called out, "Child, get up!" Her spirit returned, and she got up at once. Then He directed them to give her something to eat (Luke 8:54,55).
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead (James 2:26).Begins Immediately
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (Romans 7:24).
So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. . . Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:12,16).
The last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Corinthians 15:26).
The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost. . . Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going (Ecclesiastes 9:5,10).In Job we read.
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more (Job 7:9,10).
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and deep shadow (Job 10:21).
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