11 Bible Verses about Death Of The Righteous

Whether therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying to me, Write: From henceforth happy are the dead who die in the Lord: Yea (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their labours. Their works follow them.

We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I am to live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, and what I should chuse, I know not. For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it is far better.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

And the beggar died and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died and was buried:

For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge will render me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them likewise that have loved his appearing.

Knowing that shortly I must put off my tabernacle, even as the Lord Jesus Christ shewed me.

And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he expired.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon, with our house which is from heaven: If being clothed, we shall not be found naked.