30 Bible Verses about How Death Is Inevitable
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And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.
But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,
A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.
Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”
If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.
As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
‘They will bring you down to the pit,
And you will die the death of those who are slain
In the heart of the seas.
so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces peace!
Celebrate your feasts, O Judah;
Pay your vows.
For never again will the wicked one pass through you;
He is cut off completely.
Thus says the Lord,
“Though they are at full strength and likewise many,
Even so, they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no longer.
Now therefore send, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”
For I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this good land.
David also said, “As the Lord lives, surely the Lord will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish.
No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.
When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
Therefore you should now clearly understand that you will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence, in the place where you wish to go to reside.
