Who can live and never die? How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

Wealth you get by dishonesty will do you no good, but honesty can save your life.

Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.

No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.

Your ancestors and those prophets are no longer alive.

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,

and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

because you protect me from the power of death. I have served you faithfully, and you will not abandon me to the world of the dead.

I am telling you the truth: whoever obeys my teaching will never die."

They said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die.

because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said, 'He was not abandoned in the world of the dead; his body did not rot in the grave.'

(SEE 13:32)

As indeed he says in another passage, 'You will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.'

But this did not happen to the one whom God raised from death.