20 Bible Verses about Death Prevented

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Then when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

And some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped.

You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from sheol.

And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for your servants unto the LORD your God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by it.

Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.

Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

Deliver those that are drawn toward death, hold back those that are stumbling to the slaughter;