18 Bible Verses about Death Of The Righteous

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, yet I do not know what to choose. For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:

Surely God will ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol when he shall take me. Selah.

For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall all indeed be raised, but we shall not all be changed;

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.

And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; the rich man also died and was buried;

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my release is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; from now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all those also that have loved his appearing.

knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.

Into thy hand shall I commit my spirit; thou shalt ransom me, O LORD God of truth.

And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit; and having said thus, he gave up the spirit.

And thou shall go to the end and shalt rest, and thou shalt raise up in thy lot at the end of the days.

For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, if so be that we shall be found clothed and not naked.