20 Bible Verses about Universality Of Death
Most Relevant Verses
We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God does not take our lives. Instead, he figures out ways of bringing us back when we run away.
One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others.
Can man go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave?
What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity.
No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.
Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.
We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.
Even 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.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died and was buried.
For if we live, we live to God and if we die, we die to God. Therefore should we live or die, we are God's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.
