100 Bible Verses About Facing Mortality

And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

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

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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!

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

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

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

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

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

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

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

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

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

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

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

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

And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

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

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

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

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

And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

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.

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

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

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,