55 Bible Verses about Dying

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

Four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—

For me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “let them rest from their labors, for their works follow them!”

as unknown yet recognized;
as dying and look—we live;
as being disciplined yet not killed;

For this reason the land mourns,
and everyone who lives in it languishes,
along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky;
even the fish of the sea disappear.

We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

I will not die, but I will live
and proclaim what the Lord has done.

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”

The death of His faithful ones
is valuable in the Lord’s sight.

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

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

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

The righteous one perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence of evil.

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

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

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

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

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

So this report spread to the brothers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

a time to give birth and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to uproot;

a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Listen! I am telling you a mystery:

We will not all fall asleep,
but we will all be changed,

During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.

Give beer to one who is dying
and wine to one whose life is bitter.

For when he dies, he will take nothing at all;
his wealth will not follow him down.

In her, a nursing infant will no longer live
only a few days,
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,
and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

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Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.

So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

If we say, ‘Let’s go into the city,’ we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s go to the Arameans’ camp. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”

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

In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one grief on top of another.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”