Tag: dead
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Staggering Toward Slaughter
11Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.–Proverbs 24 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work…
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Alive and Dead
I [Jesus] know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent.–Revelation 3
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7 Hopes for the Living
4But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.–Ecclesiastes 9 Qoheleth’s point is easy. You who are still alive can do things. Even the greatest of the dead is still dead. So what are seven hopes to do good things we still have?…
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The Brother’s Name
5“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6And the first…