48 Bible Verses about Family Death
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"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.
to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived," says the Lord who rules over all.
You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.
Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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.
So Saul and his three sons died; his whole household died together.
In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.
No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Joshua said, "Why have you brought disaster on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!" All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)
Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
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 one married, and when he died he had no children.
Gideon son of Joash died at a very old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,
that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death."
The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.
So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.
But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."
It happened at midnight -- the Lord attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his 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 your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"
the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David; such is my gospel,
We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
"Moreover I, the Lord, tell you: 'Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it!
My enemies ask this cruel question about me, 'When will he finally die and be forgotten?'
The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.