55 Bible Verses about Dying

For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

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

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”

as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea disappear.

always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

I will not die, but live,
And tell of the works of the Lord.

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones.

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

This woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on it.

Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.

“No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does not live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be thought accursed.

where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.”

asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’

So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

“It will come about in all the land,”
Declares the Lord,
“That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;
But the third will be left in it.

Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord God, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”