55 Bible Verses about Dying
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For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die?
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"
This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
"There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."
saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
From Thematic Bible
Dying » Compared to as sleep
Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
Dying » Universality of
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
Dying » Vanquished
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon
I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"
Dying » Of the righteous » Precious
Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant
It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
Dying » Of the righteous » Fearless
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Topics on Dying
Dying In The Desert
Numbers 14:29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
Dying In The Wilderness
Numbers 32:15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."
Dying With Christ
Romans 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Dying With The Uncircumcised
Ezekiel 28:10You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.