48 Bible Verses about Family Death

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.'

"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his 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 go down after him.

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts.

Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.

In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.

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

And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

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

For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.

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

For one who has died has been set free from sin.

For the LORD will pass through to strike 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 enter your houses to strike you.

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

He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."

And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.

Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.

And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

At midnight the LORD struck down 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 the livestock.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. 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; you shall not recover.'"

then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

for I have five brothers--so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,

We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.

"For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.

My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?"

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

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,