Bible Verses About Human Mortality

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

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

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

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

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

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

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

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

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

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

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

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

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

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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.

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

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.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.