55 Bible Verses about Dying

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2 Kings 7:3

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die?

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

1 Kings 17:12

She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

Zechariah 11:9

Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."

Isaiah 38:1

In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"

John 21:23

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

Romans 5:7

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

Revelation 8:9

and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

1 Corinthians 15:51

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

Isaiah 65:20

"There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

Mark 9:48

'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."

Matthew 22:24

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

Genesis 5:27

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Zechariah 13:8

It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.

Ezekiel 3:19

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

John 11:50

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

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Dying » Compared to as sleep

Deuteronomy 31:16

Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

Mark 5:39

When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

Dying » Universality of

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

Psalm 37:36

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Proverbs 5:23

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Dying » Vanquished

Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon

Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain

Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful

Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates

Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"

Dying » Of the righteous » Precious

Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in

Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant

Dying » Of the righteous » Fearless

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Dying In The Desert

Numbers 14:29

your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

Dying In The Wilderness

Numbers 32:15

For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."

Dying With The Uncircumcised

Ezekiel 28:10

You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

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