'Death' in the Bible

I don't take pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the LORD. "So repent, so you may live!"

You will die a death fit for the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners." "for I have said it will be so,' declares the LORD."

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Look out! I'm bringing violent death in your direction! I'm going to kill every person and animal,

As a result, none of its watered trees will grow tall, their tops will never reach to the clouds, and they'll never grow so high again, because all of them have been appointed to death in the world beneath where human beings go, that is, down to the Pit.'"

"Tell them, "As certainly as I'm alive and living,' declares the Lord GOD, "I receive no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Instead, my pleasure is that the wicked repent from their behavior and live. Turn back! Turn back, all of you, from your wicked behavior! Why do you have to die, you house of Israel?'"

However, the priests are not to eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or that has been torn apart."

"From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.

He said: "I called out to the LORD from the midst of affliction directed at me, and he answered me. From the depths of death I cried out for help; and you heard my cry.

Moreover, just as wine leads astray the proud and powerful man, he remains restless; he has expanded his appetite like the afterlife or death itself, he is never satisfied. He gathers to himself all of the nations, taking captive all of the people for himself."

He stayed there until Herod's death in order to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said, "Out of Egypt I called my Son."

The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

"See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

They told him, "He will put those horrible men to a horrible death. Then he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at harvest time."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death.

When morning came, all the high priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put him to death.

But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to demand that Jesus be put to death.

Because Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

"You have heard his blasphemy! What is your verdict?" All of them condemned him as deserving death.

I tell you with certainty, some people who are standing here won't experience death until they see the kingdom of God."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you people were unwilling!

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

But if we say, "From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.

Neither does Herod, because he sent him back to us! Indeed, this man has done nothing to deserve death.

Then he spoke to them a third time: "What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go."

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."

But God raised him up and put an end to suffering of death, since it was impossible for him to be held by it,

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. Then after the death of his father, God had him move to this country where you now live.

ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.

Although they found no reason to sentence him to death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

I found that, although he was charged with questions about their Law, there was no charge against him deserving death or imprisonment.

If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!"

I find that he has not done anything deserving of death. But since he has appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him.

That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when I cast my vote against them, they were put to death.

As they were leaving, they began to say to each other, "This man hasn't been doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment."

They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for me to receive the death penalty in my case.

He was sentenced to death because of our sins and raised to life to justify us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life!

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a foreshadowing of the one who would come.

For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!

so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?

For the Spirit's law of life in the Messiah Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death.

To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this?

As it is written, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are thought of as sheep headed for slaughter."

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future everything belongs to you,

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

The last enemy to be done away with is death,

I face death every day! That is as certain, brothers, as it is that I am proud of you in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"

In fact, we felt that we had received a death sentence so we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,

who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

We are always carrying around the death of Jesus in our bodies, so that the life of Jesus may be clearly shown in our bodies.

While we are alive, we are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be clearly shown in our mortal bodies.