45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.