Ps&. 90.12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Ecc. 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. Ecc. 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.

Isa. 38.18. The grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy 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.

Luk. 12.37. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching.

Jno. 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. 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. 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. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

DEATH OF SAINTS. Gen.15.15. Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Gen. 49.33. Num. 20.26.

2 Kin. 22.20.

Num. 23.10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his ! 2 Sam. 12.23. I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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. 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: for he shall receive

me.

depart in peace.

1 Cor. 3.22. Or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours.

1 Cor. 15.51. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 55. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 57. Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor. 1.9. We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead.

2 Cor. 5.1. 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. I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.

1 The. 4.13. Them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14. Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

1 The. 5.10. Whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

2 Tim. 4.6. Now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous

ness.

Heb. 2.15. Deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Heb. 11.13. All died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off.

2 Pet. 1.11. An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly. 14. Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Rev. 14.13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours.

DEATH OF SAINTS, EXAMPLES OF. Abra

ham, Gen. 15.15. Gen. 25.8. Jacob, Gen.49.33. Heb. 11.21. Joseph, Gen. 50. 24. Heb. 11.22. Eli, 1 Sam. 4.18. David, 1 Kin. 2.1,2. Je Aaron, Num. 20.25-28. Moses, Deu. 34.5,6. hoiada, 2 Chr. 24.16. Hezekiah, 2 Kin. 22.20.

2 Chr. 32.33. Josiah, 2 Chr. 35.24,25.

The

wisdom.

Job 18.14. His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 20.5. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. Job 21.17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Job 24.20. The worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 24. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Job 27.8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 19. The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20. Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. 22. God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. 23. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Job 34.20. In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Job 36.12. If they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. 14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. 18. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 20. The night, when people are cut off in their place.

Psa. 37.2. They shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 9. Evildoers shall be cut off. 10. Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 35. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psa, 49.7. None of them can give to God a

Psa. 73.4.

There are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 17. Then understood I their end. 18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Psa. 78.50. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence.

Psa. 92.7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for

ever.

Pro. 2.22. The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Pro. 5.23. He shall die without instruction. Pro. 10.25. As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more. 27. The years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Pro. 11.7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. 10. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Pro. 13.9. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Pro. 14.32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.

Pro. 21.16. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Pro. 24.20. There shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Pro. 29.1. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 16. When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth.

Ecc. 8.10. 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.

Isa. 14.11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms

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cover thee. 15. Thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isa. 17.14. Behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.

Isa. 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. Jer. 15.9. She hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day. Jer. 16.4. They shall die of grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried.

Eze. 28.8. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. Eze. 31.14.

Amos 9.10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword.

1 The. 5.3. When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. Act. 5.5-10.

See ŠIN, PUNISHMENT OF-HELL-MIR

ACLES.

DEATH, SPIRITUAL. See MAN, NATURAL STATE OF.-FALL, THE.

DEBIR, KIRJATH-SEPHER, OF KIRJATHSANNAH, a city of Judah. Anakim defeated at, by Joshua, Jos. 11.21. Taken by Othniel, Jos. 15.15-17,49. A Levitical city of refuge, Jos. 21.15.

DEBORAH, Rebekah's nurse, Gen. 24.59. Gen. 35.8.

the prophetess, judges Israel, Jud. 4.4,5. Jud. 5.7. With Barak delivers Israel from Sisera, Jud. 4.6-16. Song of triumph, Jud. 5.

1 Chr. 16.15. covenant.

2 Chr. 19.11.

Be ye mindful always of his

Deal courageously, and the

Lord shall be with the good.

Psa. 37.34. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land.

Pro. 4.25. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Ecc. 7.18. It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Isa. 40.31. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isa. 56.6. The sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7. Even them will I bring to my

holy mountain, and make them joyful in my

house of prayer.

Mat. 4.25. Mar. 5.20. Mar. 7.31.

DECEIT. See FALSEHOOD-FLATTERYTREACHERY.

DECISION-PERSEVERANCE-FIDELITY TO GOD-PROFESSION OF FAITH-CONFESSING CHRIST. Deu. 10.20. Fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. Deu. 13.4.

Deu. 11.22. To love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him. Jos. 22.5.

Deu. 30.19. and thy seed may live. Jos. 1.7. Be thou strong, and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

Choose life, that both thou

Jos. 23.8. Cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day.

Jos. 24.15. If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve.

1 Sam. 12.20. Turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. v. 21.

1 Kin. 18.21. How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him.

Mat. 24.13. He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Mar. 13.13. Mat. 10.22.

Mat. 25.23. Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Luk. 7.23. Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. Mat. 11.6.

Luk. 9.26. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. Mar. 8.38.

Luk. 9.59. He said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. Mat. 8.21,22.

Luk. 9.61. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. 62. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luk. 11.23. He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. Mat. 12.30. Luk. 12.8.

Whosoever shall confess me

before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.

Luk.17.32. Remember Lot's wife. 33. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Luk. 21.19. In your patience possess ye your souls.

Jno. 8.31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jno. 15.4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. 7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 9. Continue ye in my

love.

Act. 11.23. Exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

Act. 13.43. Persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Act. 14.22. Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith.

Rom. 2.7. To them who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life.

Rom. 6.13. Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom. 10.9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom. 11.22. But toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Rom. 12.1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Rom. 14.7. None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 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. 9. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

1 Cor. 7.32. I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord. v. 33-35.

1 Cor. 12.3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. 15.1. The gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

1 Cor. 15.58. Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,

forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Cor. 16.13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

2 Cor. 1.24. By faith ye stand.

2 Cor. 4.10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

2 Cor. 5.9. We labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 15. They which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

2 Cor. 10.5. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 17. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Gal. 5.1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 10. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded.

Gal. 6.9. Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Eph. 4.14. Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

Eph. 6.13. Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Phil. 1.27. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.

Phil. 2.11. Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Phil. 3.16. Whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Phil. 4.1. Stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Col. 1.10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. 23. Continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard.

Col. 2.2. The acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. 6. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith. 19. The Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Col. 3.17. Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. 23. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.

Col. 4.12. Stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 The. 3.8. We live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 13. He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our

Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

1 The. 4.1. As ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

1 The. 5.21. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

2 The. 2.15. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 16. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, 17. Stablish you in every good word and work.

2 The. 3.13.

well-doing.

Brethren, be not weary in

1 Tim. 1.18. War a good warfare; 19. Holding faith, and a good conscience.

1 Tim. 6.12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. 14. Keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. 25. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 Pet. 1.13. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Pet. 3.15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 17. It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evildoing. Whom resist stedfast in the

1 Pet. 5.9. faith.

2 Tim. 2.1. Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 3. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Tim. 2.12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.

2 Tim. 3.14. Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. Tit. 1.9. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught.

Heb. 2.1. Give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Heb. 3.6. Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 14. We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

Heb. 4.14. Seeing then that we have a great high-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Heb. 6.1. Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. v. 9.

Heb. 10.23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised. 35. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

Heb. 12.1. Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run, with patience the race that is set before us.

Heb. 13.9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. 13. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Jas. 1.4. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 12. Blessed is the man that

Lord.

2 Pet. 3.17. Seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour.

1 Jno. 2.23. He that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 24. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 28. Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

1 Jno. 4.2. Every spirit that confesseth

that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

1Jno.5.13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

2 Jno. 8. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Jude 20. Building up yourselves on your most holy faith, 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God.

Rev. 2.7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 10. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 11. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Rev. 2.17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written. 25. That which ye have already hold fast till I come. 26. He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.

Rev. 3.5. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 11. Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in