21 Bible Verses about Spiritually Dead

“Write to the angel of the church in Sardis:

“The One who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

But He told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
he was exalted in Israel.
But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

“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.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—