Quotes about Afterlife
The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
- Psalm 9:17
Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Psalm 88:10
Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
- Psalm 88:11
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
- Psalm 89:48
It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
- Psalm 115:17
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- Psalm 141:7
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 9:18
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!
- Proverbs 15:11
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 3:21
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Isaiah 26:14
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
- Ezekiel 32:21