17 Bible Verses about Death, Preparation For

LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.

For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

In those days Hezekiah became sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came to him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live.

For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one that is coming.

O that they were wise, if they were prudent, they would understand their latter end!

O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

For to him that is still among the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.

For the grave shall not confess thee, nor shall death praise thee; nor shall those that go down into the pit wait for thy truth. He who lives, he who lives, even he shall confess thee, as I do this day; the father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.

For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning here,

but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.

Therefore be ye also ready; the Son of man is to come in the hour that ye think not.

Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning,