'Death' in the Bible

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

What is your verdict?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves death."

He asked him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live."

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay alert."

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.

You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?" They all condemned him as deserving death.

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God."

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

But Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

A third time he said to them, "Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him."

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?"

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

Pilate told them, "Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!" The Jewish leaders replied, "We cannot legally put anyone to death."

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, "Follow me."

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.

and as they were leaving they said to one another, "This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment."

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

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

The last enemy to be eliminated is death.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death -- even death on a cross!

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him --

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

And the others who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them from continuing in office,

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

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.