Corruption: Physical Decomposition: After Death

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

…and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

…all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

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

…that he should live on forever and not see decay.

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

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

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

…because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’ …

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.