Perishing

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

…to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

…and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.