30 Bible Verses about Life And Death

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours;

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Let him be blessed of the LORD, who has not left off his mercy unto the living nor unto the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, and of whom one has the right to redeem us.

And Ittai answered the king and said, As the LORD lives and as my lord the king lives, for life or for death, wherever my lord the king shall be, there also will thy slave be.

Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, he shall also lay in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Lord GOD.

whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and his company is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the lowest parts of the earth because they spread their terror in the land of the living; yet they have borne their shame with those that go down to the grave.

They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude: his graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those that go down to the pit; he was put in the midst of the dead.

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all his multitude; his graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword because they had caused their terror in the land of the living.

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be upon their bones because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

And they cried unto the LORD and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for the soul of this man, and do not lay upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

I AM the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

He is not God of the dead, but God of the living; ye therefore do greatly err.

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto him.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life.

So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ both died and rose and revived: to thus exercise lordship over the dead as well as over the living.

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not brought to life, unless it dies first;

to the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

So then death works in us, but life in you.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, for we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon with life swallowing up that which is mortal.

according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he who is ordained of God to be the Judge of living and dead.

I charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead in his appearing and in his kingdom:

the same shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.