The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

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.”

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” . . .

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father. The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers. . . .

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

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.

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.

Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and exult in His salvation.

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld. And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?” Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.