Isaiah 25:8
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8 He will destroy death forever.
The Lord God will wipe away
the tears from all faces;
The reproach of his people he will remove
from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.(A)
2 Corinthians 5:4
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4 For while we are in this tent we groan and are weighed down, because we do not wish to be unclothed[a] but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.(A)
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- 5:4 We do not wish to be unclothed: a clear allusion to physical death (2 Cor 4:16; 5:1). Unlike the Greeks, who found dissolution of the body desirable (cf. Socrates), Paul has a Jewish horror of it. He seems to be thinking of the “intermediate period,” an interval between death and resurrection. Swallowed up by life: cf. 1 Cor 15:54.
2 Timothy 1:10
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10 but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,(A)
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Hebrews 2:14-15
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14 Now since the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,(A) 15 and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life.
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