17 Bible Verses about Death Of God's People

Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope.

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him.

for one thing I have in charge to tell you from the Lord, that we, who shall be found still alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not get the advance of those that are dead:

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first:

then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, "write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yes, from henceforth, saith the spirit, they shall rest from their labours; and the recompence of their labours shall follow them."

and if I die, I gain.

I am doubly press'd between my desire to depart, in order to be with Christ, which is by far the best for ME;

for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

foolish as you are, the grain you sow, is not revived except it die.

but Paul replied, what do you mean by afflicting me thus with your tears? I am not only ready to meet my chains, but even to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

now for a wicked man no one would willingly die; but for a benefactor some have readily offer'd to die.

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

this he said to signify to Peter by what death he should glorify God. and when he had spoken this, he said to him, follow me.

knowing that I must soon leave this tabernacle, as our Lord Jesus Christ has signify'd to me.

as for me, my blood will soon be pour'd out, and the time of my departure draws nigh: