25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he. For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this one has more rest than the other.

For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

He has set me in dark places, like they that are long dead.

Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be placed with the uncircumcised.

Yea, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with them that are slain with the sword.

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about her: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: they are put in the midst of them that are slain.

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

But go you your way till the end: for you shall rest, and stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.