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Bible Verses about โ€œdeath 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.

John 3:16
2236 votes

โ€œFor 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€

Psalms 23:4
501 votes

โ€œEven 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€

Revelation 21:4
435 votes

โ€œHe 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€

Romans 6:23
427 votes

โ€œFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ€

Psalms 23:3
412 votes

โ€œHe restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.โ€

John 14:1
401 votes

โ€œ"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.โ€

Psalms 23:1
400 votes

โ€œYahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.โ€

Psalms 23:2
390 votes

โ€œHe makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.โ€

Psalms 23:5
379 votes

โ€œYou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.โ€

Psalms 23:6
373 votes

โ€œSurely 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€

John 14:3
309 votes

โ€œIf 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€

John 14:2
299 votes

โ€œIn 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€

1 Thessalonians 4:17
206 votes

โ€œthen 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€

Matthew 10:28
201 votes

โ€œDon'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€

1 Thessalonians 4:16
198 votes

โ€œFor 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€

Ecclesiastes 12:7
194 votes

โ€œand the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:13
157 votes

โ€œBut 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€

1 Thessalonians 4:14
156 votes

โ€œFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:18
134 votes

โ€œTherefore comfort one another with these words.โ€

2 Corinthians 5:7
130 votes

โ€œfor we walk by faith, not by sight.โ€

John 11:25
127 votes

โ€œJesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:15
125 votes

โ€œFor 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€

2 Corinthians 5:8
84 votes

โ€œWe are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.โ€

Luke 23:43
70 votes

โ€œJesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."โ€

1 Corinthians 15:52
53 votes

โ€œin 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€

1 Corinthians 15:51
52 votes

โ€œBehold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,โ€

Psalms 116:15
51 votes

โ€œPrecious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.โ€

John 5:28
43 votes

โ€œDon't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,โ€

John 5:29
42 votes

โ€œand 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€

1 Corinthians 15:53
38 votes

โ€œFor this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.โ€

Daniel 12:2
36 votes

โ€œMany of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.โ€

1 Corinthians 15:54
32 votes

โ€œBut 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€

2 Corinthians 5:6
28 votes

โ€œTherefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;โ€

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