Quotes About Mortality

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherdís tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ëI am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.í Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Will you still say, ëI am a god,í in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.