21 Bible Verses about Overcoming Death
Most Relevant Verses
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.
Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news,
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.
And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.
