Ecclesiastes 9:5
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
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- Isaiah 26:14
"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:11
"There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 6:5
"For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 88:10
"Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah."
Read in chapter → - Job 14:21
"His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 9:27
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 109:15
"Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:16
"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."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 8:10
"And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 63:16
"Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting."
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