'Death' in the Bible

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,but righteousness rescues from death.

Genuine righteousness leads to life,but pursuing evil leads to death.

There is life in the path of righteousness,but another path leads to death. >

A wise man’s instruction is a fountain of life,turning people away from the snares of death.

There is a way that seems right to a man,but its end is the way to death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,turning people away from the snares of death.

A king’s fury is a messenger of death,but a wise man appeases it.

There is a way that seems right to a man,but its end is the way to death.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Making a fortune through a lying tongueis a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

Rescue those being taken off to death,and save those stumbling toward slaughter.

A man burdened by bloodguiltwill be a fugitive until death.Let no one help him.

A good name is better than fine perfume,and the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

Set me as a seal on your heart,as a seal on your arm.For love is as strong as death;ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.Love’s flames are fiery flames—the fiercest of all.

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;their houses will be looted,and their wives raped.

He will destroy death forever.The Lord God will wipe away the tearsfrom every faceand remove His people’s disgracefrom the whole earth,for the Lord has spoken.

For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,and we have made an agreement with Sheol;when the overwhelming scourge passes through,it will not touch us,because we have made falsehood our refugeand have hidden behind treachery.”

Your deal with Death will be dissolved,and your agreement with Sheol will not last.When the overwhelming scourge passes through,you will be trampled.

For Sheol cannot thank You;Death cannot praise You.Those who go down to the Pitcannot hope for Your faithfulness.

They made His grave with the wickedand with a rich man at His death,although He had done no violenceand had not spoken deceitfully.

Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion,and He will receive the mighty as spoil,because He submitted Himself to death,and was counted among the rebels;yet He bore the sin of manyand interceded for the rebels.

Death will be chosen over life by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

for Death has climbed through our windows;it has entered our fortresses,cutting off children from the streets,young men from the squares.

If they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ you must tell them: This is what the Lord says:Those destined for death, to death;those destined for the sword, to the sword.Those destined for famine, to famine;those destined for captivity, to captivity.

“But you must say to this people, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am presenting to you the way of life and the way of death.

Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.”

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God!”

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and plead for the Lord’s favor, and did not the Lord relent concerning the disaster He had pronounced against them? We are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.

But Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans to put us to death or to deport us to Babylon!”

He will come and strike down the land of Egypt—those destined for death, to death; those destined for captivity, to captivity; and those destined for the sword, to the sword.

The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

ר ReshLord, see how I am in distress.I am churning within;my heart is broken,for I have been very rebellious.Outside, the sword takes the children;inside, there is death.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “So repent and live!

They will bring you down to the Pit,and you will die a violent deathin the heart of the sea.

This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.

Tell them: As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.I will redeem them from death.Death, where are your barbs?Sheol, where is your sting?Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Moreover, wine betrays;an arrogant man is never at rest.He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,and like Death he is never satisfied.He gathers all the nations to himself;he collects all the peoples for himself.

He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called My Son.

The people who live in darknesshave seen a great light,and for those living in the shadowland of death,light has dawned.

As He was telling them these things, suddenly one of the leaders came and knelt down before Him, saying, “My daughter is near death, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

For God said:Honor your father and your mother; and,The one who speaks evil of father or mothermust be put to death.

I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me.”

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so they could put Him to death.

What is your decision?”They answered, “He deserves death!”

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

For Moses said:Honor your father and your mother; andWhoever speaks evil of father or mothermust be put to death.

Then He said to them, “I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.”

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles,

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, but they could find none.

You have heard the blasphemy! What is your decision?”And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

to shine on those who live in darknessand the shadow of death,to guide our feet into the way of peace.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he saw the Lord’s Messiah.

I tell you the truth: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

They appeared in glory and were speaking of His death, which He was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

“Lord,” he told Him, “I’m ready to go with You both to prison and to death!”

Neither has Herod, because he sent Him back to us. Clearly, He has done nothing to deserve death.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in Him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

and how our chief priests and leaders handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified Him.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death—ever!”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

They said this so that Jesus’ words might be fulfilled signifying what kind of death He was going to die.

He said this to signify by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, He told him, “Follow Me!”

God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

Saul agreed with putting him to death.On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

Though they found no grounds for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have Him killed.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

I actually did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the saints in prison, since I had received authority for that from the chief priests. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One.

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

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

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.