45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

And whosoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor: but no man knows of his grave unto this day.

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here, as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that carves a tomb for himself in a rock?

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

When the waves of death surrounded me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me;

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

Who long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in in its season.

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on sheol.

But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs unto them, and they go down alive into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Therefore sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that exults, shall descend into it.

Sheol from beneath is excited for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
They shall go down to the gates of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: pity shall be hid from my eyes.

Because you will not leave my soul in hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.