48 Bible Verses about Family Death

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man shall die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

If brethren shall dwell together, and one of them shall die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

And ye will be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will they cause to be put to death.

And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the path of it there is no death.

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased; and having no issue, left his wife to his brother.

And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of beasts.

And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us:

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

But Jesus said to him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, to the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she may die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of lewdness in her father's house: so shalt thou remove evil from among you.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.

My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

There is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

If a thief shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.