20 Bible Verses about Universality Of Death

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones.

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”