Isaiah 25:8

25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. ¹ 

The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face,

and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.

Indeed, the Lord has announced it! ² 

Luke 20:36

20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels ³  and are sons of God, since they are ⁴  sons ⁵  of the resurrection.

Hebrews 2:14-15

2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in ⁶  their humanity, ⁷  so that through death he could destroy ⁸  the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil), 2:15 and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Revelation 20:14

20:14 Then ⁹  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:4

21:4 He ¹⁰  will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.” ¹¹ 

[25:8]  ¹ sn The image of the Lord “swallowing” death would be especially powerful, for death was viewed in Canaanite mythology and culture as a hungry enemy that swallows its victims. See the note at 5:14.

[25:8]  ² tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[20:36]  ³ sn Angels do not die, nor do they eat according to Jewish tradition (1 En. 15:6; 51:4; Wis 5:5; 2 Bar. 51:10; 1QH 3.21-23).

[20:36]  ⁴ tn Grk “sons of God, being.” The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle here.

[20:36]  ⁵ tn Or “people.” The noun υἱός (Juios) followed by the genitive of class or kind (“sons of…”) denotes a person of a class or kind, specified by the following genitive construction. This Semitic idiom is frequent in the NT (L&N 9.4).

[2:14]  ⁶ tn Or “partook of” (this is a different word than the one in v. 14a).

[2:14]  ⁷ tn Grk “the same.”

[2:14]  ⁸ tn Or “break the power of,” “reduce to nothing.”

[20:14]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[21:4]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “God, and he.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[21:4]  ¹¹ tn For the translation of ἀπέρχομαι (apercomai; here ἀπῆλθαν [aphlqan]) L&N 13.93 has “to go out of existence – ‘to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease.’”