I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.  (1 Corinthians 15:50)

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

Where, 0 death, is your victory? Where, 0 death, is your sting?  (1 Corinthians 15:55)

No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death. (Ecclesiastes 8:8)

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, 0 death, are your plagues? Where, 0 grave, is your destruction? (Hosea 13:14)

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. (Isaiah 57:2)

Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. (Job 14:5)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. (John 5:25)

I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. (John 8:51.)

I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. (John 11:25-26)

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (John 14:3)

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living for to him all are alive. (Luke 20:38)

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)

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. (Psalm 23:4)

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. (Psalm 33:18-19)

But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself. (Psalm 49:15)

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. (Psalm 56:13)

Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death. (Psalm 68:20)

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:26)

For you, 0 LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living. (Psalm 116:8-9)

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. (Romans 14:8)

**Copyright, 2002, Brian Campbell (Permission is granted to copy for personal use only.)