19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Death

I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

“Naked is Sheol before Him,
And Abaddon has no covering.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord,
How much more the hearts of men!

If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Sheol, and the barren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”

“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord.

“Abaddon and Death say,
‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’

For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.