19 Bible Verses about Spiritually Dead

"To the messenger of the church at Sardis write: 'The One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars speaks as follows: "I know what you are doing; you have the reputation of being alive, but in reality you are dead.

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

Yes, although you were dead through your shortcomings and were physically uncircumcised, God made you live again through fellowship with Christ. He graciously forgave us all our shortcomings,

For to be thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means death, but to be thinking the things suggested by the Spirit means life and peace.

But if Christ lives in you, although your bodies must die because of sin, your spirits are now enjoying life because of right standing with God.

And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God."

If the meaning of the good news I preach is covered up at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"

Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.

For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;

Now if the old religious service which resulted in death, although its law was carved in letters of stone, was introduced with a splendor so great that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on Moses' face because of the splendor that was fading from it,