66 Bible Verses about Not Dying
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It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God."
The Lord said to him, "You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!"
Lord, you have been active from ancient times; my sovereign God, you are immortal. Lord, you have made them your instrument of judgment. Protector, you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.
When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.
Then Samuel said, "Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites." So Agag came to him trembling, thinking to himself, "Surely death is bitter!"
Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
The Lord severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.
If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.
Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die."
So they cried out to the Lord, "Oh, please, Lord, don't let us die on account of this man! Don't hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, Lord, have done just as you pleased."
The ship's captain approached him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!"
he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep." And they began making fun of him.
When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."
In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.
And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.
(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"
I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.
All the people said to Samuel, "Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us -- your servants -- so we won't die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king."
Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.
and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.'
So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me."
by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.
in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,
when they prayed: "Have mercy on me, Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!
when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)
You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!
Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price (the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.
As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.
Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed --
So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"
In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.
Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'
"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,
But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have."'"
And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites' livestock not one died.
Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.