20 Bible Verses about Universality Of Death
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished one be not expelled from him.
For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not 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 away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, 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 unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.