17 Bible Verses about Death, Preparation For
Most Relevant Verses
"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
About that time Hezekiah was sick unto the death. And the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus sayeth the LORD: put thine household in an order, for thou shalt die and not live."
I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'
O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."
And why? As long as a man liveth, he is careless: for a quick dog, say they, is better than a dead lion.
Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.
The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing is it for the eyes to look upon the Sun. If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.
For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth: but the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day. The night cometh, when no man can work.
For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.
And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear:
If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.
Therefore be ye also ready, for in the hour ye think least on, in the same ye think he would not: will the son of man come.
