48 Bible Verses about Family Death

asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’

“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.

Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Thus Saul died with his three sons, and all those of his house died together.

In the way of righteousness is life,
And in its pathway there is no death.

Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

And Gideon the son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

for he who has died is freed from sin.

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,

who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”

The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.

But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”

Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel,

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

My enemies speak evil against me,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”

The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.