23 Bible Verses about Death Looms Near

For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.

To give light to them that sat in darkness, and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

And he said, "In my tribulation I called unto the LORD, and he answered me: out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardest my voice.

And his Disciples came unto him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, save us: we perish."

And they went to him and awoke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are lost." Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the tempest of water: and they ceased, and it waxed calm.

And the servant of a certain Centurion was sick, and ready to die, whom he made much of.

for he had but a daughter only, upon a twelfth year of age, and she lay a dying. And as he went, the people thronged him.

As soon as the same heard that Jesus was come out of Jewry, into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him, that he would descend, and heal his son: For he was even ready to die.

They are the ministers of Christ - I speak as a fool - I am more: In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more plenteously,

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

His soul draweth on to destruction, and his life to death.

They have given a wicked sentence upon me, "When he lieth, he shall rise up no more."

But as for thee, O Pashhur, thou shalt be carried unto Babylon with all thine household, and to Babylon shalt thou come, where thou shalt die, and be buried: thou and all thy favorers, to whom thou hast preached lies."

Moreover, I will send thee, and thy mother that bare thee, into a strange land where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

And therefore thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will send thee out of the land, and within a year thou shalt die because thou hast falsely spoken against the LORD."

Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.

Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.

But now, seeing it is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him again any more? I shall go to him: but he shall not come again to me."

And if they say unto thee, 'Whither shall we go?' Then tell them, 'The LORD giveth you this answer: Some unto death, some to the sword, some to hunger, some into captivity.'

And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt with slaughter, with prisonment, and with the sword.

Be awake, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.