30 Bible Verses about Life And Death

And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.

See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be.

For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:

They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;

But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.