Bible Verses about โwhen we dieโ
The Bible contains 32 verses about when we die 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
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
โInasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,โ
โand the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.โ
โ"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.โ
โIn Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.โ
โHe cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'โ
โBesides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'โ
โIt happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.โ
โ"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.โ
โA certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,โ
โand desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.โ
โ"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;โ
โfor I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'โ
โ"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'โ
โ"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'โ
โ"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"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
โNo one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.โ
โWhatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.โ
โFor David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,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
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 we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.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
