Psalm 89:48

Perplexity About God's Promises

⁴⁷ Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings! ⁴⁸ What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude ⁴⁹ Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?

Live Forever

Power of the Grave

Power Of Sheol

Hades

No

Selah

Sheol

Psalm 49:15

God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken away without experiencing death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he won approval as one who pleased God.

Job 30:23

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive.

Psalm 49:7-9

No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

John 8:51

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

Acts 2:27

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.

2 Corinthians 4:14

We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.

Hebrews 9:27

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,