happeneth to them all. 15. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. 17. Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 18. Yea, I hated all my labour

which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Eccl. 3:2. A time to be born, and a time to die; 19. That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; 20. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Eccl. 4:2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Eccl. 5:15. As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. Job 1:21.

Eccl. 6:6. Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: | do not all go to one place? 10. That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Eccl. 7:1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 15. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Eccl. 12:5. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Isa. 25:8. lie will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;

Isa. 38:1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 10. I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Isa. 40:7. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 1 Pet. 1:24.

Isa. 51:12. I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Jer. 9:21. Death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Hos. 13:14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues ; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Zech. 1:5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? Matt. 10:28. Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul:

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death.

John 9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Rom 5:12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 14. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

1 Cor. 15:21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 55. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Tim. 6:7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

2 Tim. 1:10. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

Rev. 20:12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Rev. 21:4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

PREPARATION FOR: Deut. 32:29. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !

2 Kin. 20:1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Psa. 39:4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psa. 90:12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Eccl. 9:4. To him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Eccl. 11:7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.

age.

Heb. 9:27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Heb. 13:14. Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Jas. 1:10. As the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his

ways.

1 Pet. 1:24. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away :

Rev. 1:18. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,

truth. 19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36. And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching:

John 9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Rom. 14:8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

Phil. 1:21. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Heb. 13:14. Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Jas. 4:15. Ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

1 Pet. 1:17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

OF THE RIGHTEOUS: Num. 23:10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

2 Sam. 12:23. But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

2 Kin. 22:19. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. 20. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

Psa. 23:4. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psa. 31:5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Psa. 37:37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Psa. 49:15. God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: forheshall receive me. Psa. 73:24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Psa. 116:15. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Prov. 14:32. The righteous hath hope in his death.

Eccl. 7:1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Isa. 57:1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the| righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Dan. 12:13. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Luke 2:29. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

Luke 16:22. The beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: Luke 23:43. To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

John 11:11. These things said he: and aft « that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarı sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake hir out of sleep.

Acts 7:59. They stoned Stephen, callin upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, recei my spirit.

Rom. 14:7. For none of us liveth to hir self, and no man dieth to himself. 8. Fo whether we live, we live unto the Lord; an whether we die, we die unto the Lord whether we live therefore, or die, we ar the Lord's.

1 Cor. 3:21. All things are your's; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, e things to come; all are your's; 23. And yo are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

1 Cor. 15:51. Behold, I shew you a mys tery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall al be changed, 52. In a moment, in the twink ling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immor tality. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory. 55. 0 death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor. 1:9. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us ;

2 Cor. 5:1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 4. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Phil. 1:20. Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21. To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24. Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

1 Thess. 4:13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

1 Thess. 5:9. For God hath not appointed