Westminster Larger Catechism · 1647

Q84. Shall all men die?

Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all men once to die; for that all have sinned.
Answer · Westminster Larger Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Romans 6:23

    For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  2. [2]
    Hebrews 9:27

    And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

  3. [3]
    Romans 5:12

    Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.