Bible Verses About End of Life Consideration

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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 Lord’s.

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

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 of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

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

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.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

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.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

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

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

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

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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.

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.