Bible Verses About Preparation for Death

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

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

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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

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

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

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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

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

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

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

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

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.

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

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.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

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