Immortality: General Scriptures Concerning

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

But now that 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.”

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? …

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. …

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. …

The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude—Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

…will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” …

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God. …

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, …

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

…yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

…the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

…to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? …

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

…the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

…that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. …

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

…and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels …

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.

…treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

…in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

…so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. …

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, …

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

…keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.

But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.