55 Bible Verses about Dying
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And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What -- we are sitting here till we have died;
and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'
as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;
Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.
at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,
And she saith, 'Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it -- and died.'
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;
and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,
for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.
and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
And I say, 'I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.'
and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth.
for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,
for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.
In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'
yet Jesus did not say to him, that he doth not die, but, 'If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee?'
for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;
A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.
and die did the third of the creatures that are in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.
lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it,
For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.
There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.
And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine is in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death -- we have died.'
'Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.
and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, 'Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'
Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off -- they expire, And the third is left in it.
Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?
and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.
for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.
Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
From Thematic Bible
Dying » Compared to as sleep
afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!
And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
and having gone in he saith to them, 'Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;
Dying » Universality of
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;
There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.
Dying » Sought as a relief from trouble death spiritual » Of the wicked
And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.
Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?
And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
Dying » Vanquished
and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,
He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.
and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;
Dying » Of the righteous » Blessing pronounced upon
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'
Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain
Dying » Of the righteous » Hopeful
In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
Dying » Of the righteous » Faith illuminates
In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'
Dying » Of the righteous » Precious
Dying » Of the righteous » Divine element in
for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
Dying » Of the righteous » Triumphant
And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;
Dying » Of the righteous » Fearless
Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.
Topics on Dying
Dying In The Desert
Numbers 14:29in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;
Dying In The Wilderness
Numbers 32:15when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'
Dying With Christ
Romans 6:6this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
Dying With The Uncircumcised
Ezekiel 28:10The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'