55 Bible Verses about Dying

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2 Kings 7:3

And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What -- we are sitting here till we have died;

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

Hosea 4:3

Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.

1 Kings 17:12

And she saith, 'Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it -- and died.'

Genesis 35:19

and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,

Zechariah 11:9

And I say, 'I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.'

Isaiah 38:1

In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

John 21:23

yet Jesus did not say to him, that he doth not die, but, 'If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee?'

Romans 5:7

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

Revelation 8:9

and die did the third of the creatures that are in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

1 Corinthians 15:51

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

Isaiah 65:20

There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

Mark 9:48

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

2 Kings 7:4

if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine is in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death -- we have died.'

Matthew 22:24

'Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

Genesis 5:27

And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.

Mark 4:38

and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, 'Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

Zechariah 13:8

And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off -- they expire, And the third is left in it.

Ezekiel 3:19

And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.

John 11:50

nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

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Dying » Compared to as sleep

1 Corinthians 15:6

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

Deuteronomy 31:16

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

Job 7:21

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

Mark 5:39

and having gone in he saith to them, 'Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

Dying » Universality of

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

2 Samuel 14:14

for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

Job 30:23

For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

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

Jeremiah 16:4

Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.

Psalm 37:36

And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

Proverbs 5:23

He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

Dying » Vanquished

Isaiah 25:8

He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

1 Corinthians 15:54

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to 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 hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And 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

in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

Dying In The Wilderness

Numbers 32:15

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

Dying With The Uncircumcised

Ezekiel 28:10

The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

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