The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
I have waited for Your salvation, O Jehovah.
Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.
They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.
You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Watch the perfect and behold the upright one; for the end of that man is peace.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
You shall lead me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but among fools it is made known.
for a just one falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked shall fall into evil.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing.
Lord, now You will let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word.
Then Jesus said again to them, I go away, and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.
Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.
What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me to His heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.