Bible Verses about โdeath and dyingโ
The Bible contains 33 verses about death and dying across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โEven though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.โ
โHe will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."โ
โFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โHe restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.โ
โ"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.โ
โYahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.โ
โHe makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.โ
โYou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.โ
โSurely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. A Psalm by David.โ
โIf I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.โ
โIn my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.โ
โthen we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.โ
โDon't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.โ
โFor the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,โ
โand the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.โ
โBut we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.โ
โFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.โ
โTherefore comfort one another with these words.โ
โfor we walk by faith, not by sight.โ
โJesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.โ
โFor this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.โ
โWe are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.โ
โJesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."โ
โin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.โ
โBehold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,โ
โPrecious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.โ
โDon't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,โ
โand will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.โ
โFor this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.โ
โMany of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.โ
โBut when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."โ
โTherefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;โ
