On the way they said to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" (It was a very large stone.) Then they looked up and saw that the stone had already been rolled back.

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

"I am a foreigner living here among you; sell me some land, so that I can bury my wife."

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.

they are doomed to die like sheep, and Death will be their shepherd. The righteous will triumph over them, as their bodies quickly decay in the world of the dead far from their homes.

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

For David served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.