55 Bible Verses about Dying

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, "Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: 'Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them."

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet -- see! -- we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the Lord has done.

She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."

The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers.

and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

I then said, "I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other's flesh!"

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the Lord says, 'Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"

(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;

and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed --

This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;

For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

If we go into the city, we'll die of starvation, and if we stay here we'll die! So come on, let's defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we'll live; if they kill us -- well, we were going to die anyway."

"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'

The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

It will happen in all the land, says the Lord, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it.

Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?

In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to him -- and not to him only, but also to me -- so that I would not have grief on top of grief.

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."