20 Bible Verses about Universality Of Death
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For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which 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 brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."