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Death, Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife

God is God of the living, not of the dead.Matthew 22:31-32; Mark 12:26-27; Luke 20:37-38.
God's word is more enduring than heaven and earth.Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus.Matthew 28:18.
Jesus will raise the dead by his voice.John 5:25-29.
Jesus came from heaven to do the Father's will.John 6:38.
Jesus is the living bread from heaven, given for the life of the world.John 6:51.
Unless people believe that Jesus is who he claims to be, they will die in their sins.John 8:24.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life.John 11:25.
Whoever believes in Jesus will live even though he dies.John 11:25.
Whoever lives and believes in Jesus will never finally die.John 11:26.
Repent because the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15.
Those who keep Jesus' word will never see ultimate death.John 8:51.
Belief in Jesus as resurrection and life gives hope beyond physical death.John 11:25-26.
Those persecuted for Jesus should rejoice because their heavenly reward is great.Matthew 5:11-12; Luke 6:22-23.
Heaven rejoices over one sinner who repents.Luke 15:7, 10.
The lost can be dead and become alive again through restoration.Luke 15:24, 32.
Store treasure in heaven.Matthew 6:20; Luke 12:33.
In the resurrection, ordinary earthly marriage does not continue in the same form.Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36.
Resurrected people cannot die anymore and are like angels in that respect.Luke 20:35-36.
Follow Jesus even when following may lead to suffering or death.John 21:18-19.
Jesus promises to build his assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.Matthew 16:18.
Fear God, whose judgment reaches beyond physical death.Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:5.
Denying Jesus before people has heavenly consequences.Matthew 10:33; Luke 12:9.
Do not rejoice primarily in spiritual power; rejoice that your names are written in heaven.Luke 10:17-20.
The disciples are witnesses of Jesus' death and resurrection.Luke 24:46-48.
Jesus answers Sadducees by affirming resurrection and correcting ignorance of Scripture and God's power.Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40.
Woe to outward beauty masking inward death and uncleanness.Matthew 23:27-28.
Woe to honoring dead prophets while continuing the same murderous resistance.Matthew 23:29-36.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.Matthew 7:19.
Not everyone who claims Jesus' name will enter the kingdom.Matthew 7:21-23.
Some will come from east and west into the kingdom while unbelieving heirs are cast out.Matthew 8:11-12; Luke 13:28-29.
Greater revelation brings greater accountability.Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 12:47-48.
The righteous will shine like the sun in the Father's kingdom.Matthew 13:43.
The Son of Man will come in glory and repay each person according to deeds.Matthew 16:27.
It is better to lose a bodily member than for the whole person to be cast into hell.Matthew 5:29-30; 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-48.
Fear God, whose authority reaches beyond physical death.Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:4-5.
Jerusalem's temple would be destroyed.Matthew 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6.
Many false messiahs will come and deceive many.Matthew 24:4-5, 23-26; Mark 13:5-6, 21-23; Luke 21:8.
Disciples will face persecution, hatred, betrayal, and death.Matthew 24:9-10; Mark 13:9-13; Luke 21:12-19.
False prophets will arise and deceive many.Matthew 24:11, 24.
Lawlessness can cause love to grow cold.Matthew 24:12.
The one who endures to the end will be saved.Matthew 24:13; Mark 13:13.
The gospel will be proclaimed broadly before the end.Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:10.
The Son of Man will come with power and great glory.Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27.
The Son of Man will send angels to gather his elect.Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27.
The fig tree illustration teaches discernment of approaching fulfillment.Matthew 24:32-33; Mark 13:28-29; Luke 21:29-31.
Jesus' words will not pass away even when heaven and earth do.Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.
No human knows the day or hour; the Father has unique knowledge of that timing.Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32.
The ten virgins warn that readiness cannot always be borrowed at the last moment.Matthew 25:1-13.
The Son of Man will judge all nations like a shepherd separating sheep from goats.Matthew 25:31-33.
The righteous inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world.Matthew 25:34.
Those who reject the King are pictured as departing into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.Matthew 25:41.
Resurrection is real because God is God of the living.Matthew 22:31-32; Mark 12:26-27; Luke 20:37-38.
Resurrected life transcends ordinary earthly marriage.Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36.
Those counted worthy of the age to come cannot die anymore.Luke 20:35-36.
All who are in the tombs will hear the Son's voice and come out.John 5:28-29.
There is a resurrection of life and a resurrection of judgment.John 5:29.
The dead who believe in Jesus will live.John 11:25.
The ruler of this world is judged.John 16:11.
Do not let dissipation, drunkenness, and life anxieties dull readiness.Luke 21:34-36.
Pray for strength to stand before the Son of Man.Luke 21:36.
When eschatological signs occur, lift your heads because redemption draws near.Luke 21:28.
Jerusalem will be trampled until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Luke 21:20-24.
Jesus repeatedly teaches that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer, be killed, and rise.Matthew 16:21; 17:22-23; 20:18-19; Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; Luke 9:22; 18:31-33.
Rejecting the path of the cross can reflect human rather than divine priorities.Matthew 16:22-23; Mark 8:32-33.
The Son of Man came to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45.
Jesus' death is like a grain of wheat dying so that much fruit may result.John 12:24.
Jesus' being lifted up will draw people to him.John 12:32-33.
Jesus' glorification arrives through suffering and death.John 12:23-28; 13:31-32.
The bread of the final meal signifies Jesus' body given for his disciples.Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19.
The cup signifies Jesus' blood of the covenant, poured out for many.Matthew 26:27-28; Mark 14:23-24.
The cup is the new covenant in Jesus' blood.Luke 22:20.
Drink from the covenant cup.Matthew 26:27.
One of Jesus' own table companions will betray him.Matthew 26:21-25; Mark 14:18-21; Luke 22:21-22; John 13:21-30.
The Son of Man goes as Scripture determines, but the betrayer remains accountable.Matthew 26:24; Mark 14:21; Luke 22:22.
Jesus predicts the disciples' scattering and Peter's denial.Matthew 26:31-35; Mark 14:27-31; Luke 22:31-34; John 13:36-38.
After being raised, Jesus will go ahead of the disciples to Galilee.Matthew 26:32; Mark 14:28.
Jesus rejects violent defense of his mission with the sword.Matthew 26:52; Luke 22:51; John 18:11.
Those who take the sword will perish by the sword.Matthew 26:52.
Jesus promises the repentant criminal paradise with him.Luke 23:39-43.
Jesus entrusts his mother and beloved disciple to one another.John 19:26-27.
Jesus declares the completion of his mission: "It is finished."John 19:30.
The Law, Prophets, and Psalms point to the Messiah's suffering and resurrection.Luke 24:44-46.
Repentance and forgiveness must be proclaimed because of the completed death-and-resurrection mission.Luke 24:46-47.
The risen Jesus offers peace to his disciples.Luke 24:36; John 20:19, 21, 26.
Those who believe without seeing the risen Jesus are blessed.John 20:29.
Go and tell the disciples to go to Galilee after the resurrection.Matthew 28:10.
Rejoice that your names are written in heaven rather than primarily in spiritual power.Luke 10:20.
Do not hold Jesus back in the post-resurrection transition; go tell the brothers.John 20:17.
The Son of Man is the meeting point between heaven and earth.John 1:51.
Jesus speaks of heavenly things from firsthand heavenly knowledge.John 3:11-13.
The Son of Man uniquely comes from heaven.John 3:13.
The dead will hear the Son of God's voice and live.John 5:25.
The Father, not Moses, is the ultimate giver of bread from heaven.John 6:32.
The true bread from heaven gives life to the world.John 6:33.
The bread Jesus gives leads to life beyond the manna that could not prevent death.John 6:49-51.
The bread from heaven surpasses ancestral manna.John 6:58.
Keeping Jesus' word protects from ultimate death.John 8:51.
Jesus' voluntary death and resurrection obedience are loved by the Father.John 10:17-18.
Believe in Jesus even in the face of death.John 11:25-27, 40.
The hour of the Son of Man's glorification is bound to his death.John 12:23-24.
Jesus' death brings judgment on the world and the casting out of its ruler.John 12:31-33.
Jesus' resurrection life guarantees the disciples' life.John 14:19.
No one can ultimately take away the resurrection joy Jesus gives.John 16:22.
Jesus remains sovereign over Peter's death and John's future.John 21:18-22.

The Future & End Times

The Father has entrusted judgment to the Son.John 5:22, 27.
Judgment should be righteous rather than based on appearances.John 7:24.
Jesus will be with his disciples to the end of the age.Matthew 28:20.
Jesus has authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.John 5:27.
Jesus will lose none of those the Father gives him but will raise them on the last day.John 6:39.
Jesus will raise every believer on the last day.John 6:40, 44, 54.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life.John 11:25.
Whoever lives and believes in Jesus will never finally die.John 11:26.
Jesus' spoken word will judge those who reject him on the last day.John 12:48.
Jesus came from the Father into the world and returns to the Father.John 16:28.
The kingdom grows amid evil until final separation.Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.
The kingdom gathers broadly before final separation.Matthew 13:47-50.
Be ready because the King's return may be delayed and sudden.Matthew 25:1-13.
God sent the Son to save the world rather than condemn it in his first coming.John 3:17.
Belief in Jesus as resurrection and life gives hope beyond physical death.John 11:25-26.
Rejecting Jesus' word has final-day consequences.John 12:47-48.
Settle conflicts before they escalate into judgment.Matthew 5:25-26; Luke 12:57-59.
Give generously; the measure you use will return to you.Luke 6:38.
Refusing forgiveness after receiving forgiveness invites judgment.Matthew 18:32-35.
Watch and pray so that you do not enter temptation.Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 22:40, 46.
After failure, return and strengthen fellow disciples.Luke 22:31-32.
Lend without making return the basis of love.Luke 6:34-35.
In the resurrection, ordinary earthly marriage does not continue in the same form.Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36.
Remain watchful and faithful while the master is away.Matthew 24:45-51; Mark 13:33-37; Luke 12:35-48.
Fruitlessness leads to judgment imagery, while fruitful branches are pruned.John 15:2, 6.
Offer peace to a house; if not received, let it return to you.Matthew 10:12-13; Luke 10:5-6.
Jesus answers Sadducees by affirming resurrection and correcting ignorance of Scripture and God's power.Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40.
Jesus warns of severe judgment on leaders who persecute God's messengers.Matthew 23:33-36.
The returning unclean spirit warns that empty reform can end worse than the beginning.Matthew 12:43-45; Luke 11:24-26.
The weeds among wheat teach that good and evil coexist until final divine separation.Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.
The dragnet teaches broad gathering followed by final separation of righteous and wicked.Matthew 13:47-50.
The wicked tenants teach judgment on leaders who reject God's messengers and finally his Son.Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19.
The wedding banquet teaches that refusing God's invitation brings judgment and receiving it calls for a fitting response.Matthew 22:1-14.
The sheep and goats teach final judgment in which treatment of the needy reveals allegiance to the King.Matthew 25:31-46.
The watchful servants teach readiness for the master's return.Luke 12:35-38.
The minas teach faithful stewardship during the king's absence and accountability at his return.Luke 19:11-27.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.Matthew 7:19.
Not everyone who claims Jesus' name will enter the kingdom.Matthew 7:21-23.
Final rejection can fall on people with impressive religious claims but no true obedience.Matthew 7:22-23.
Some will come from east and west into the kingdom while unbelieving heirs are cast out.Matthew 8:11-12; Luke 13:28-29.
Judgment on towns rejecting greater revelation will be more severe than Sodom's.Matthew 10:15; 11:20-24; Luke 10:12-15.
Greater revelation brings greater accountability.Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 12:47-48.
Every careless word will be accounted for in judgment.Matthew 12:36.
Nineveh and the queen of the South will rise in judgment against those rejecting greater revelation.Matthew 12:41-42; Luke 11:31-32.
At the end of the age, angels separate evil from righteous.Matthew 13:40-43, 49-50.
Final judgment is pictured as a fiery furnace with weeping and gnashing of teeth.Matthew 13:42, 50.
The righteous will shine like the sun in the Father's kingdom.Matthew 13:43.
The Son of Man will come in glory and repay each person according to deeds.Matthew 16:27.
It is better to lose a bodily member than for the whole person to be cast into hell.Matthew 5:29-30; 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-48.
Fear God, whose authority reaches beyond physical death.Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:4-5.
Jerusalem's temple would be destroyed.Matthew 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6.
Many false messiahs will come and deceive many.Matthew 24:4-5, 23-26; Mark 13:5-6, 21-23; Luke 21:8.
Wars and rumors of wars do not by themselves mean the end has arrived.Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 21:9.
Wars, famines, earthquakes, pestilences, and terrors are beginning signs, not automatic proof of the final moment.Matthew 24:6-8; Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:9-11.
Disciples will face persecution, hatred, betrayal, and death.Matthew 24:9-10; Mark 13:9-13; Luke 21:12-19.
False prophets will arise and deceive many.Matthew 24:11, 24.
Lawlessness can cause love to grow cold.Matthew 24:12.
The one who endures to the end will be saved.Matthew 24:13; Mark 13:13.
The gospel will be proclaimed broadly before the end.Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:10.
The abomination/desolation crisis demands urgent flight in the Synoptic discourse.Matthew 24:15-22; Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24.
Do not delay urgent flight by returning for possessions.Matthew 24:17-18; Mark 13:15-16; Luke 17:31.
Great tribulation will be severe but limited for the sake of the elect.Matthew 24:21-22; Mark 13:19-20.
Do not believe claims that Christ's return is hidden in a private location.Matthew 24:23-26; Mark 13:21-23.
The Son of Man's coming will be unmistakable like lightning.Matthew 24:27; Luke 17:24.
Cosmic signs accompany the climactic coming of the Son of Man.Matthew 24:29-30; Mark 13:24-26; Luke 21:25-27.
The Son of Man will come with power and great glory.Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27.
The Son of Man will send angels to gather his elect.Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27.
The fig tree illustration teaches discernment of approaching fulfillment.Matthew 24:32-33; Mark 13:28-29; Luke 21:29-31.
Jesus' words will not pass away even when heaven and earth do.Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.
No human knows the day or hour; the Father has unique knowledge of that timing.Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32.
The days of Noah illustrate ordinary life continuing until sudden judgment.Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27.
Lot's days likewise illustrate sudden judgment amid ordinary life.Luke 17:28-30.
Remember Lot's wife.Luke 17:32.
People in close proximity may experience radically different outcomes at the coming.Matthew 24:40-41; Luke 17:34-35.
Stay awake because you do not know when your Lord is coming.Matthew 24:42; Mark 13:33-37.
Be ready because the Son of Man comes at an unexpected hour.Matthew 24:44; Luke 12:40.
Faithful servants are blessed when found doing their duty at the master's return.Matthew 24:45-47; Luke 12:42-44.
Abusing others during an apparent delay brings severe judgment.Matthew 24:48-51; Luke 12:45-46.
The ten virgins warn that readiness cannot always be borrowed at the last moment.Matthew 25:1-13.
Watch because the day and hour are unknown.Matthew 25:13.
Final judgment distinguishes faithful stewardship from fearful refusal to use entrusted gifts.Matthew 25:14-30.
The Son of Man will judge all nations like a shepherd separating sheep from goats.Matthew 25:31-33.
The righteous inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world.Matthew 25:34.
Final punishment and eternal life are set in parallel contrast.Matthew 25:46.
Those who reject the King are pictured as departing into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.Matthew 25:41.
Resurrection is real because God is God of the living.Matthew 22:31-32; Mark 12:26-27; Luke 20:37-38.
Resurrected life transcends ordinary earthly marriage.Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36.
Those counted worthy of the age to come cannot die anymore.Luke 20:35-36.
All who are in the tombs will hear the Son's voice and come out.John 5:28-29.
There is a resurrection of life and a resurrection of judgment.John 5:29.
Jesus will raise believers on the last day.John 6:39-40, 44, 54.
The dead who believe in Jesus will live.John 11:25.
Jesus' rejected word becomes a judge on the last day.John 12:48.
The ruler of this world is judged.John 16:11.
Do not let dissipation, drunkenness, and life anxieties dull readiness.Luke 21:34-36.
Pray for strength to stand before the Son of Man.Luke 21:36.
When eschatological signs occur, lift your heads because redemption draws near.Luke 21:28.
Jerusalem will be trampled until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Luke 21:20-24.
Do not reduce the kingdom's final manifestation to sensational claims of "here" or "there."Luke 17:20-24.
The Son of Man must first suffer and be rejected before final manifestation.Luke 17:25.
The bread of the final meal signifies Jesus' body given for his disciples.Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19.
Watch and pray against temptation.Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 22:40, 46.
The Law, Prophets, and Psalms point to the Messiah's suffering and resurrection.Luke 24:44-46.
Watch out for scribes who love honor and exploit the vulnerable.Mark 12:38-40; Luke 20:45-47.
See that no one leads you astray about the end.Matthew 24:4; Mark 13:5; Luke 21:8.
Do not be alarmed merely by wars and rumors.Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 21:9.
Flee urgently when the designated Jerusalem crisis arrives.Matthew 24:15-20; Mark 13:14-18; Luke 21:20-23.
Do not go back for possessions during urgent flight.Matthew 24:17-18; Mark 13:15-16; Luke 17:31.
Do not believe false reports that Christ is secretly here or there.Matthew 24:23-26; Mark 13:21-23.
Stay awake and be ready.Matthew 24:42-44; 25:13; Mark 13:33-37; Luke 12:35-40; 21:34-36.
Watch and pray so as not to enter temptation.Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38.
Go and tell the disciples to go to Galilee after the resurrection.Matthew 28:10.
Watch against greed.Luke 12:15.
Put entrusted minas to work until the king returns.Luke 19:13.
Do not follow false messianic claimants.Luke 21:8.
Watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down.Luke 21:34.
Weep for yourselves and your children rather than for Jesus in view of Jerusalem's coming judgment.Luke 23:28-31.
Go, call your husband, and return in the Samaritan conversation.John 4:16.
Do not judge according to appearance; judge with righteous judgment.John 7:24.
Do not hold Jesus back in the post-resurrection transition; go tell the brothers.John 20:17.
The fields are spiritually ready for harvest.John 4:35.
Jesus came for a judgment that reverses presumed sight and blindness.John 9:39.
Jesus' voluntary death and resurrection obedience are loved by the Father.John 10:17-18.
Jesus' death brings judgment on the world and the casting out of its ruler.John 12:31-33.
Jesus will return and take his people to himself.John 14:3.
Believers will continue and extend Jesus' mission after his return to the Father.John 14:12.
Jesus' resurrection life guarantees the disciples' life.John 14:19.
Jesus' return to the Father should produce joy among those who love him.John 14:28.
The Spirit convicts concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.John 16:11.
No one can ultimately take away the resurrection joy Jesus gives.John 16:22.
Peace is found in Jesus amid tribulation.John 16:33.
Jesus grieves over Jerusalem rather than gloating over coming judgment.Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 19:41-44.
Jesus' compassion does not eliminate moral seriousness or judgment.Matthew 11:20-24; 23; 25:31-46.