9 Bible Verses about Death, Description Of

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come. For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and quiet and satisfied;

His pails are full of milk [his sides are filled out with fat],
And the marrow of his bones is moist,

Whereas another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting pleasure or good fortune.
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“Together they lie down in the dust,
And the worms cover them.

And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).

When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.