66 Bible Verses About Afterlife

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

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

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

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

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

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

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

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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