Bible Verses About Mortality
This collection includes 50 passages about Mortality. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
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.
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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.
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.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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.
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.
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:
So Job died, being old and full of days.
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesusβ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
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.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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 Lordβs.
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.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adamβs transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
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:
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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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