18 Bible Verses about Death Of The Righteous

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

If we live, we live to be at the Lord's will. And if we die, we die at the Lord's will.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage. If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not. I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

Behold, I show a mystery unto you: we shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed,

right dear in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand. I have fought a good fight, and have fulfilled my course, and have kept the faith. From henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord that is a righteous judge shall give me at that day: not to me only: but unto all them that love his coming.

forasmuch as I am sure how that the time is at hand that I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.

Into thy hands I commend my spirit; for thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth.

And they stoned Stephen, calling on and saying, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."

And Jesus cried with a great voice and said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." And when he thus had said, he gave up the ghost.

Go thou thy way now, till it be ended: take thy rest, and bide in thy lot, till the days have an end."

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven: And herefore sigh we, desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven: so yet if it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked.