19 Bible Verses about Death Of God's People

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him.

For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died.

With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

Yes, even those who have died believing in the Messiah are lost.

Who can count the dust of Jacob? Who can number the dust of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may I end up like him."

In the sight of the LORD, the death of his faithful ones is valued.

I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!" "Yes," says the Spirit. "Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them."

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

You fool! The seed you plant does not come to life unless it dies,

At this Paul replied, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!"

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

For it is rare for anyone to die for a righteous person, though somebody might be brave enough to die for a good person.

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, has shown me.

I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.