Bible Verses about “what happens when you die”
The Bible contains 27 verses about what happens when you die across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For 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.”
“He 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."”
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,”
“then 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.”
“Don'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.”
“For 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,”
“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
“But 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.”
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.”
“but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,”
“Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.”
“For 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.”
“to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;”
“who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"”
“If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.”
“"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”
“For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
“Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."”
“Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,”
“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.”
“Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,”
“and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.”
“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
“His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.”