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Bible Verses About Death

This collection includes 50 passages about Death. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

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Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

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What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

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Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

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So Job died, being old and full of days.

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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

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For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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

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Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

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They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

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Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

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For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lordโ€™s.

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And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

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He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

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