Natural Death
36 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
19 sections
- Abolished by Christ
- All Shall be Raised From
- Christ Delivers from the Fear of
- Conquered by Christ
- Consequence of Sin
- Consideration of, a Motive to Diligence
- Enoch and Elijah Were Exempted From
- Illustrates the Change Produced in Conversion
- Levels all Ranks
- Lot of All
- None Subject to in Heaven
- Ordered by God
- Pray to be Prepared For
- Prepare For
- Puts an End to Earthly Projects
- Regard, As at Hand
- Shall Finally be Destroyed by Christ
- Strips of Earthly Possessions
- when Averted for a Season, is a Motive to Increased
Abolished by Christ
- 2 Timothy 1:10 And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
All Shall be Raised From
- Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Christ Delivers from the Fear of
- Hebrews 2:15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
Conquered by Christ
- Romans 6:9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
- Revelation 1:18 the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
Consequence of Sin
- Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Consideration of, a Motive to Diligence
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Enoch and Elijah Were Exempted From
- Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
- Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
- 2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
Illustrates the Change Produced in Conversion
- Romans 6:2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Colossians 2:20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
Levels all Ranks
- Job 3:17–19 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. …
Lot of All
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
None Subject to in Heaven
- Luke 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
- Revelation 21:4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Ordered by God
- Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Job 14:5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Pray to be Prepared For
- Psalm 39:4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalm 39:13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Prepare For
- 2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
Puts an End to Earthly Projects
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Regard, As at Hand
- Job 14:1–2 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. …
- Psalm 39:4–5 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. …
- Psalm 90:9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Shall Finally be Destroyed by Christ
- Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- 1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Strips of Earthly Possessions
- Job 1:21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- 1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
when Averted for a Season, is a Motive to Increased
- Psalm 56:12–13 Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You. …
- Psalm 118:17 I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
- Isaiah 38:18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 38:20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.