20 Bible Verses about Universality Of Death
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After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others.
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.
Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.
Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,
If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"
and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.
Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.
Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.
The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.
"One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
If we live, we live to honor the Lord; and if we die, we die to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.
I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!" "Yes," says the Spirit. "Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them."
