55 Bible Verses about Dying

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2 Kings 7:3

Four men who were suffering from a dreaded skin disease were outside the gates of Samaria. They said to each other: Why should we wait here until we die?

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land will mourn. All the inhabitants are weak. The beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea will also perish.

1 Kings 17:12

Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, 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.

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died and was buried on the way to Bethlehem (Ephrath).

Zechariah 11:9

Then I said, 'I will not feed you! If you die go ahead and die. Let those that are left eat each other!

Isaiah 38:1

King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: Jehovah tells you: 'You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.'

John 21:23

This expression went among the brethren, that that disciple should not die. Yet Jesus did not say that he should not die. He only said: If I will that he stay until I come, what is that to you?

Romans 5:7

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Perhaps for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Revelation 8:9

A third of the living creatures in the sea died. And a third of the ships were destroyed.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Isaiah 65:20

Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years. He who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth. The sinner who reaches a hundred will be considered accursed.

Mark 9:48

(For the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. Questionable passage.)

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

2 Kings 7:4

If we go into the city we will starve to death. If we stay here we will also die. So let us go to the Syrian camp. The worst they can do is kill us. Maybe they will spare our lives.

Genesis 5:27

Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.

Mark 4:38

He was in back of the boat sleeping on a cushion. They woke him. They said: Master is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction?

Zechariah 13:8

It will happen in all the land, said Jehovah, two parts will be cut off and die; but the third will be left.

Ezekiel 3:19

When you warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wicked way; he will die because of his sin, but you will save yourself.

John 11:50

You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people. That way the whole nation will not perish.

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Dying » Compared to as sleep

1 Corinthians 15:6

More than five hundred brothers saw him at the same time after that. Most of them remain to this day, but some have fallen asleep [in death].

Deuteronomy 31:16

Jehovah said to Moses: You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

Job 7:21

Why not just pardon my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.

Mark 5:39

He entered and said: Why all the commotion and why do you weep. The child is not dead but sleeps.

Dying » Universality of

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

2 Samuel 14:14

We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God does not take our lives. Instead, he figures out ways of bringing us back when we run away.

Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

Psalm 37:36

Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more. I searched for him, but he could not be found.

Dying » Vanquished

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!

1 Corinthians 15:54

When this corruptible shall be clothed with (Greek: enduo: dressed, put on) incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory.

Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon

Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain

Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful

Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates

Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired

Numbers 23:10

The descendants of Jacob are like specks of dust. Who can count them or number even one-fourth of the people of Israel? Let me die the death of innocent people. Let my end be like theirs.'

Dying » Of the righteous » Precious

Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in

Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant

Dying » Of the righteous » Fearless

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Dying In The Desert

Numbers 14:29

Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.

Dying In The Wilderness

Numbers 32:15

If you turn away from him he will abandon all these people in the desert. You would be responsible for their destruction.

Dying With The Uncircumcised

Ezekiel 28:10

You will die at the hands of foreigners like a godless person.' I have spoken, declares Jehovah.

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