55 Bible Verses about Dying

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

And destruction came on a third part of the living things which were in the sea, and on a third part of the ships.

See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

And he himself was in the back of the boat, sleeping on the cushion: and they, awaking him, said, Master, is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction?

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.