30 Bible Verses about How Death Is Inevitable

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.

But now that he has died, what's the point of fasting? Can I bring him back again? I'll be going to be with him, but he won't be returning to me."

However, as all human beings do, you will die, and like other rulers, you will fall.'

At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

"Your ancestors where are they? And the prophets do they live forever?

So I said, "I will no longer be your shepherd. Let those who are about to die perish, and let what is about to be destroyed be destroyed. As for the survivors, let them devour each other."

When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, "This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice won't let him live."

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Mortal men collect tithes, but we are informed by Scripture that Melchizedek keeps on living.

There have been many priests, since each one of them had to stop serving in office when he died.

Now there happened to be four lepers who were at that very moment at the entrance to the city gate. As they were talking with one another, they said, "Why are we sitting here waiting to die?

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Just as he came naked from his mother's womb, he will leave as naked as he came; he will receive no profit from his efforts he cannot carry away even a handful.

For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

They'll send you down to the Pit, and you'll die defiled in the depths of the sea.

As a result, none of its watered trees will grow tall, their tops will never reach to the clouds, and they'll never grow so high again, because all of them have been appointed to death in the world beneath where human beings go, that is, down to the Pit.'"

"And if there are ten men remaining in one house, they will die.

Look! There on the mountains! The feet of the one who brings good news, who broadcasts a message of peace. Judah, celebrate your solemn festivals and keep your vows, because the wicked will never again invade you. Nineveh will be completely eliminated!

This is what the LORD says: "No matter how strong they are, and no matter how numerous, they will surely be annihilated and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will do so no more.

So send for your livestock and everything that belongs to you that's out in the field, because every person and animal found in the field that has not been brought inside to shelters will die when the hail comes down on them."'"

I'm going to die in this land and I won't cross the Jordan River, but you're about to cross over to possess that good land.

As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down, or his time will come to die, or he will go into battle and perish.

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

When Elisha fell ill with the sickness from which he was about to die, King Joash of Israel came down to see him, wept in his presence, and told him, "My father, Israel's chariots and horsemen!"

Now, be fully aware that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague in the place where you want to settle."