55 Bible Verses about Dying
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For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, who said one to another, Why shall we stay 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 dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.
And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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.
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, but, behold, we live; as chastened, but not killed;
Therefore the earth shall mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; and even the fishes of the sea shall be caught.
always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
And she said, As the LORD thy God lives, I have no baked bread, but only a handful of meal in a pitcher and a little oil in a cruse; and now I was gathering two sticks that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.
Thus Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
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.
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.
and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to slavery.
Then I said, I will not feed you any longer; the one that dies, let it die; and the one that is to be lost, let it be lost; and let the rest eat each one the flesh of another.
And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.
for neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live.
Then this saying went abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus did not say unto him, He shall not die, but, If I will that he tarry until I come, what is that to thee?
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even 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, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall all indeed be raised, but we shall not all be changed;
Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.
There shall no longer be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days, for the child shall die one hundred years old; and he who sins at one hundred years of age shall be accursed.
Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we stay here, we shall die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
saying, Master, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow; and they awoke him and said unto him, Master, dost thou not care that we perish?
Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, though he is dead, yet shall he live;
And it shall come to pass that in all the land, said the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off in her and shall be lost; but the third shall be left therein.
Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?
And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Yet if thou warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation be lost.
From Thematic Bible
Dying » Compared to as sleep
after that, he appeared unto more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain unto now, but some are fallen asleep.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people shall rise up and fornicate after the gods of the strangers of the land where they go when they shall be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.
And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame and everlasting confusion.
And when he was come in, he said unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleeps.
Dying » Universality of
Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.
For I know that thou dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living.
For he sees that all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others.
Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth; and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?
Yet he passed away, and, behold, he was not: I sought him, but he could not be found.
He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Dying » Vanquished
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more neither shall there be any more sorrow nor crying nor pain; for the former things are passed away.
but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and has brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,
He will destroy death forever; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away every tear from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people he shall take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has determined it.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon
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.
Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain
For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful
For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.
Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing them and embracing them and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Who shall 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 last end be like his!
Dying » Of the righteous » Precious
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.
Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in
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.
Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant
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;
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 shall comfort me.
Topics on Dying
Dying In The Desert
Numbers 14:29Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me;
Dying In The Wilderness
Numbers 32:15For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave you in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Dying With Christ
Romans 6:6knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer.
Dying With The Uncircumcised
Ezekiel 28:10Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken, said the Lord GOD.