55 Bible Verses about Dying
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And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.
And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Write, Blessed the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them.
as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;
For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;
And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?
And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.
and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
And I said, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which perisheth let it perish; and let them which are left eat every one the flesh of another.
and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
This word therefore went out among the brethren, That disciple does not die. And Jesus did not say to him, He does not die; but, If I will that he abide until I come, what is that to thee?
For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;
A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea which had life died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:
For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.
There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;
No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
If we say, Let us enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we abide here, we shall die. And now come, let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they put us to death, we shall but die.
saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother.
And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him up and say to him, Teacher, dost thou not care that we are perishing?
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:
who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.
for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.
nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
From Thematic Bible
Dying » Compared to as sleep
Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.
And entering in he says to them, Why do ye make a tumult and weep? the child has not died, but sleeps.
Dying » Universality of
For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked
But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
They shall die of painful deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carcases shall be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?
but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Dying » Vanquished
And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away.
but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;
He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken.
But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Write, Blessed the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them.
Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain
Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful
The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death.
Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates
All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!
Dying » Of the righteous » Precious
Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in
For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant
And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Dying » Of the righteous » Fearless
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Topics on Dying
Dying In The Desert
Numbers 14:29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
Dying In The Wilderness
Numbers 32:15If ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Dying With Christ
Romans 6:6knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
Dying With The Uncircumcised
Ezekiel 28:10Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.