45 Bible Verses about Mortality

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Genesis 2:16-17

And Jehovah God will appoint to the man, saying, From every tree of the garden eating, thou shalt eat. But from the tree to know good and evil thou shalt not eat from it, for in the day of thy eating from it, dying, thou shalt die.

Psalm 90:3

Thou wilt turn man even to crushing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye sons of man.

2 Samuel 14:14

For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.

Job 30:23

For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.

Romans 5:15-19

But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many. And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification. For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.)read more.
Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.

Romans 8:20-21

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Psalm 90:5-6

Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away. In the morning it will flourish, and it will pass away at evening; it will be cut off and will dry up.

Psalm 103:15-16

Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish. For the wind passed over upon it and it is not; and its place shall know it no more.

Isaiah 40:6-7

The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field: The grass was dried up, the flower fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah blew upon it: surely the people grass.

Job 10:8-9

Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down. Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.

Isaiah 22:13

And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

Job 20:6-11

If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud; As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he? As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the nightread more.
The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him. The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth. His bones were full of his youth, and shall lie down with him in the dust.

Psalm 22:29

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship before him, and all they going down to dust shall bow down, and he preserved not alive his soul.

Psalm 39:4-8

O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail. Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence. Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.read more.
And now, what waited I for, O Jehovah? my hope it is to thee. Deliver me from all my transgression: thou wilt not set me a reproach of the foolish one.

Romans 7:14-25

For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good.read more.
And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

For this corrupted must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory.

Isaiah 25:8

He swallowed up death for glory, the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people he will remove from off all the earth, for Jehovah spake.

1 Corinthians 15:42-44

So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, I am the rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live. And all living and believing in me should never die. Believest thou this?

2 Timothy 1:9-10

Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times, And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news:

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He having the Son has life; and he not having the Son of God has not life.

Revelation 22:3-5

And there shall be no more curse: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name upon their foreheads. And night shall not be there; and they have no need of a lamp, and the light of the sun; for the Lord God shall enlighten them: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Revelation 14:11

And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever: and they have no rest day and night, those worshipping the wild beast and his image, and if any receive the stamp of his name.

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Isaiah 51:12

I, I am he comforting you: who thou? and shalt thou be afraid of man he shall die, and of the son of man shall be given for grass?

Psalm 103:15-16

Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish. For the wind passed over upon it and it is not; and its place shall know it no more.

Isaiah 40:6-7

The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field: The grass was dried up, the flower fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah blew upon it: surely the people grass.

Psalm 90:5-6

Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away. In the morning it will flourish, and it will pass away at evening; it will be cut off and will dry up.

More verses: Isaiah 37:27 James 1:10

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