Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.
Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
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