my spirit that is upon you,
Acts 2:39 For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself.”
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
Mark 16:16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who refuses to believe will be condemned.
Romans 9:6–7 But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel, 7 nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but “In Isaac will your descendants be named.”
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.
Isaiah 59:21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh:
my spirit that is upon you,
and my words that I have placed in your mouth
shall not depart from your mouth,
or from the mouths of your children,
or from the mouths of your children’s children,”
says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
Genesis 17:12–13 And at eight days of age you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner who is not from your offspring. 13 You must certainly circumcise the servant born in your house and the one bought with your money. And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant.
Chapter 5: The Lord’s Supper
Exodus 12:1–13 And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year. 3 Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves a lamb for the family, a lamb for the household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons; you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat. 5 The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 “You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight. 7 And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it. 8 And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on bitter herbs. 9 You must not eat any of it raw or boiled, boiled in the water, but rather roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts. 10 And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire. 11 And this is how you will eat it—with your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is Yahweh’s Passover.
12 “And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. 13 And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:21–23 And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, “Select and take for yourselves sheep for your clans and slaughter the Passover sacrifice. 22 And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning. 23 And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you.
Exodus 12:28 And the Israelites went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.
Exodus 12:43–51 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner may eat it. 44 But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 A temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat it. 46 It will be eaten in one house; you will not bring part of the meat out from the house to the outside; and you will not break a bone of it. 47 All of the community of Israel will prepare it. 48 And when an alien dwells with you and he wants to prepare the Passover for Yahweh, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it, and he will be as the native of the land, but any uncircumcised man may not eat it. 49 One law will be for the native and for the alien who is dwelling in your midst.”
50 And all the Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. 51 And it was on exactly this day Yahweh brought the Israelites out from the land of Egypt by their divisions.
Exodus 12:26–27 And when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom for you?’ 27 you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’ ” And the people knelt down and they worshiped.
Exodus 12:13 And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Colossians 2:17 which are a shadow of what is to come, but the reality is Christ.
Exodus 12:27 you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’ ” And the people knelt down and they worshiped.
Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field—with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.
Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall not eat with it anything leavened; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
1 Corinthians 5:8 So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Matthew 16:6 And Jesus said to them, “Watch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Exodus 12:26–27 And when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom for you?’ 27 you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’ ” And the people knelt down and they worshiped.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Psalm 118:26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh.
We bless you from the house of Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 10:14–21 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I am speaking as to sensible people; you judge what I am saying. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread. 18 Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? 19 Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. 21 You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
Deuteronomy 16:2 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God from among your flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there.
Luke 22:1 Now the feast of Unleavened Bread (which is called Passover) was drawing near.
Exodus 12:8 And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on bitter herbs.
1 Corinthians 10:21 You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:20 No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.
Acts 2:42 And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.
Acts 20:7 And on the first day of the week, when we had assembled to break bread, Paul began conversing with them, because he was going to leave on the next day, and he extended his message until midnight.
Acts 20:11 So he went up and broke bread, and when he had eaten and talked for a long time, until dawn, then he departed.
Acts 27:36 So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Luke 22:17 And he took in hand a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves.
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Mark 1:23 And so then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!
1 Corinthians 11:24 and after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 13:1–2 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
Luke 22:17 And he took in hand a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves.
Luke 22:20 And in the same way the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.
1 Corinthians 11:25 Likewise also the cup, after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,
Galatians 1:13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Acts 2:42 And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
crushed because of our iniquities;
the chastisement for our peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we were healed.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him;
he made him sick.
If she places his life a guilt offering,
he will see offspring.
He will prolong days,
and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.
John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
1 Corinthians 11:26–29 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup. 29 For the one who eats and drinks, if he does not recognize the body, eats and drinks judgment against himself.
Psalm 104:15 and wine that makes glad the heart of man,
so that their faces shine from oil,
and bread that strengthens the heart of man.
Luke 22:21 “But behold, the hand of the one who is betraying me is with me on the table!
1 Corinthians 11:27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:33–34 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. 34 And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest and up to their greatest,” declares Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”
Hebrews 10:3 But in them there is a reminder of sins year by year.
Hebrews 8:12–13 For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings,
and I will not remember their sins any longer.”
13 In calling it new, he has declared the former to be old. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
John 5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.
Ephesians 1:23 which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ,
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
John 6:53–58 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves! 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!
John 6:55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:47 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.
John 6:47–48 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life.
John 6:50–51 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:47 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.
John 6:48 I am the bread of life.
John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.
John 6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.
John 6:54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
1 Corinthians 15:50 But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.
1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread.
John 6:48–62 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52 So the Jews began to quarrel among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves! 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 60 Thus many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This saying is hard! Who can understand it?” 61 But Jesus, because he knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!
Luke 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the feast.
1 Corinthians 11:32 But if we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.
Malachi 1:11 From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of hosts.
Isaiah 19:21 And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day, and they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to Yahweh, and they will fulfill them.
Isaiah 19:19 On that day, there will be an altar for Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border.
Malachi 1:11 From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of hosts.
Part 3: Eschatology: The Doctrine of Last Things
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall happen in the future of the days
the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be established;
it will be among the highest of the mountains,
and it shall be raised from the hills.
All of the nations shall travel to him;
Micah 4:1 And it will be that at the end of those days,
the mountain of the house of Yahweh
will be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it will be lifted up above the hills,
and people will stream to it.
Acts 2:17 ‘And it will be in the last days,’ God says,
‘I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
1 Peter 1:20 who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you
1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.
Acts 2:17 ‘And it will be in the last days,’ God says,
‘I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
Luke 20:34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
Ephesians 1:21 above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one,
Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Hebrews 2:5 For he did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking.
Chapter 6: Individual Eschatology
Psalm 73:23–24 But I am continually with you;
you have hold of my right hand.
24 You will guide me with your advice,
and afterward you will take me into honor.
Psalm 17:15 By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face.
Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise.
Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust,
for your dew is celestial dew,
and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.
Daniel 12:2 And many from those sleeping in the dusty ground will awake, some to everlasting life and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
Hebrews 11:13–16 These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming them, and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 And if they remember that land from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Philippians 1:23 But I am hard pressed between the two options, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for this is very much better.
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore, although we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
2 Corinthians 5:8 so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the things through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:8 so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Philippians 1:23 But I am hard pressed between the two options, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for this is very much better.
Luke 23:43 And he said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Ephesians 2:6 and raised us together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Luke 16:23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he was in torment and saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus at his side.
1 Peter 3:19 in which also he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
2 Peter 2:9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,
Revelation 6:11 And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until the number of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they had been were completed also.
Revelation 7:15 Because of this, they are before the throne of God,
and they serve him day and night in his temple,
and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
Revelation 6:9–11 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the testimony which they had, 10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?” 11 And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until the number of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they had been were completed also.
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write:
‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’ ”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them.”
Matthew 16:24–25 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it.
Romans 8:20–22 For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.
Luke 16:30–31 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
Revelation 21:7–8 The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But as for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion
and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from her midst
by a spirit of judgment
and by a spirit of burning.
Micah 7:8 You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy!
When I fall I will stand up;
when I sit in darkness
Yahweh will be a light for me.
Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Malachi 3:2 And who can endure the day of his coming? And who is the one who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, like launderers’ alkali.
1 Corinthians 3:13–15 the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work that he has built upon it remains, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.
1 Corinthians 15:29 Otherwise, why do they do it, those who are being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why indeed are they being baptized on behalf of them?
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold, a pale green horse, and the one seated on it was named Death, and Hades followed after him. And authority was granted to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword and by famine and by pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Revelation 20:13–14 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and each one was judged according to their deeds. 14 And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
Philippians 2:10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth,
Revelation 5:3 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.
1 Samuel 2:6 Yahweh kills and restores alive,
he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Genesis 44:31 it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.
Job 14:13 “O that you would conceal me in Sheol,
that you would hide me until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
Job 17:13–14 If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in the darkness,
14 if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’
Hosea 13:14 Should I redeem them from the power of Sheol?
Should I deliver them from death?
Where are your plagues, O Death?
Where is your destruction, O Sheol?
Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Psalm 89:48 What man can live on and not see death?
Can he deliver his life from the power of Sheol? Selah
Acts 2:27 because you will not abandon my soul in Hades,
nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.
Acts 2:31 by having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.
1 Corinthians 15:55 Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire was kindled by my anger,
and it burned up to the depths of Sheol,
and it devoured the earth and its produce,
and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.
Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity,
and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall turn back to Sheol,
all the nations forgetting God,
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold of Sheol.
Proverbs 15:24 The path of life leads upward for him who has insight,
in order to turn away from Sheol below.
Numbers 23:5 Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and you must speak thus.”
Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or as a number the fourth part of Israel?
Let my life die the death of an upright person,
and let my end be like his!”
Psalm 16:11 You will make known to me the path of life.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures forever.
Psalm 17:15 By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face.
Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.
Psalm 49:15 Surely God will ransom my life
from the power of Sheol,
because he will receive me. Selah
Proverbs 14:32 By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown,
and the righteous will find refuge in his death.
Hebrews 11:16 But now they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.
Proverbs 15:11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh,
how much more the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied,
and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold of Sheol.
Revelation 20:14 And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
1 Thessalonians 4:14–15 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain until the Lord’s coming, will not possibly precede those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.
Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,
John 8:21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!”
John 9:4 It is necessary for us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!
Luke 21:34–35 “But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly 35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 13:24–25 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to, 25 when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ And he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from!’
2 Corinthians 6:2 For he says,
“At the acceptable time I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation!
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
Hebrews 4:7 again he ordains a certain day, today, speaking by David after so long a time, just as had been said before,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
Matthew 10:22 and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end—this one will be saved.
1 Corinthians 1:8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 3:6 but Christ was faithful as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.
Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end,
Hebrews 6:11 And we desire each one of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end,
Revelation 2:26 And the one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him authority over the nations,
Romans 1:32 who, although they know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same things, but also they approve of those who do them.
Romans 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
Romans 2:14–15 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one after another accusing or even defending them
Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Acts 10:35 but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 13:26 “Men and brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God—to us the message of this salvation has been sent!
Acts 17:4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, and also a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the prominent women.
Acts 17:17 So he was discussing in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a merchant dealing in purple cloth who showed reverence for God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was being said by Paul.
1 Peter 3:19–20 in which also he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
20 who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was being constructed, in which a few—that is, eight souls—were rescued through water.
1 Peter 4:6 Because for this reason also the gospel was preached to those who are dead, so that they were judged by human standards in the flesh, but they may live in the spirit by God’s standards.
Ephesians 2:1–2 And you, although you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,
1 Timothy 5:6 But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead even though she lives.
Colossians 2:13 And although you were dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Revelation 3:1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write:
“This is what the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: ‘I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead.
Luke 12:47–48 And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will will be given a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know and did things deserving blows will be given a light beating. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him for even more.
Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.