19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Death

and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him -- his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.

If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.

Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it is not satisfied with water, And fire -- it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit,

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

for since through man is the death, also through man is a rising again of the dead,

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

for where a covenant is, the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.