We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

to keep us from the grave, to let us live forever.

I know you are taking me off to my death, to the fate in store for everyone.

After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either.

They are both going to the same place---the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.

No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.

Yes, the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten.

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.

I am telling you the truth: whoever obeys my teaching will never die."

It was faith that kept Enoch from dying. Instead, he was taken up to God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up. The scripture says that before Enoch was taken up, he had pleased God.

But God will rescue me; he will save me from the power of death.

because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus to life, will also raise us up with Jesus and take us, together with you, into his presence.