Zechariah 1:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer?

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  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he? 11 As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp, 12 So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe. 3 This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 And among them many were made Priests, because they were not suffered to endure, by the reason of death. 24 But this man, because hee endureth euer, hath a Priesthood, which cannot passe from one to another.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement:
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 To call to remembrance the wordes, which were tolde before of the holy Prophetes, and also the commaundement of vs the Apostles of the Lord and Sauiour. 3 This first vnderstande, that there shall come in the last dayes, mockers, which wil walke after their lustes, 4 And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

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  • Jer 16:11-12
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    12And their father sayde vnto them, What way went he? and his sonnes shewed him what waye the man of God went, which came from Iudah.