DEATH

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 2:17

  but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

• Genesis 5:24

  Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

• Genesis 6:7

  Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground — man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky — for I am sorry that I have made them.”

• Genesis 6:11

  The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

• Genesis 6:12

  God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

• Genesis 6:13

  God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

• Genesis 15:15

  but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

• Genesis 19:12

  The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

• Genesis 19:13

  for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

• Genesis 19:24

  Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

• Genesis 19:25

  He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

• Genesis 25:8

  Abraham gave up his spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 27:2

  He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

• Genesis 27:3

  Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

• Genesis 27:4

  Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:32

  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

• Genesis 27:35

  He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

• Genesis 35:29

  Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

• Genesis 49:1

  Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

• Genesis 49:2

  Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Genesis 49:5

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

• Genesis 49:6

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

• Genesis 49:8

  “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Genesis 49:13

  “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

• Genesis 49:14

  “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

• Genesis 49:16

  “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

• Genesis 49:18

  I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

• Genesis 49:19

  “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

• Genesis 49:20

  “Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

• Genesis 49:21

  “Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

• Genesis 49:22

  “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

• Genesis 49:25

  even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

• Genesis 49:27

  “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

• Genesis 49:33

  When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

• Numbers 11:15

  If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

• Numbers 23:10

  Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

• Deuteronomy 31:16

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Deuteronomy 32:39

  “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

• Joshua 23:14

  “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

• 1 Samuel 20:2

  He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

• 1 Samuel 20:3

  David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

• 2 Samuel 1:23

  Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

• 2 Samuel 12:23

  But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• 1 Kings 6:8

  The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

• 1 Kings 6:9

  So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:10

  He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:11

  Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,

• 1 Kings 7:1

  Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

• 1 Kings 7:2

  For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 7:3

  It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

• 1 Kings 7:15

  For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

• 1 Kings 7:16

  He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

• 1 Kings 10:1

  When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

• 1 Kings 14:13

  All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

• 1 Kings 19:4

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

• 2 Kings 20:1

  In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”

• 2 Kings 22:19

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 22:20

  ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.

• 1 Chronicles 10:13

  So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

• 1 Chronicles 10:14

  and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Job 3:13

  For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

• Job 3:17

  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

• Job 3:18

  There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

• Job 3:19

  The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

• Job 7:1

  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

• Job 7:8

  The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

• Job 7:9

  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

• Job 7:10

  He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

• Job 7:21

  Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”

• Job 10:21

  before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

• Job 10:22

  the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

• Job 14:2

  He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

• Job 14:5

  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

• Job 14:6

  Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

• Job 14:7

  “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

• Job 14:8

  Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

• Job 14:9

  yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

• Job 14:10

  But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

• Job 14:11

  As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

• Job 14:12

  so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

• Job 14:14

  If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

• Job 14:19

  The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

• Job 14:20

  You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

• Job 14:21

  His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

• Job 16:22

  For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.

• Job 17:13

  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

• Job 17:14

  If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

• Job 17:16

  Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

• Job 18:14

  He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

• Job 21:23

  One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

• Job 21:25

  Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

• Job 21:26

  They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

• Job 21:32

  Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

• Job 21:33

  The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

• Job 30:23

  For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

• Job 34:14

  If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

• Job 34:15

  all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

• Job 36:18

  Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

• Job 36:19

  Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

• Job 38:17

  Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

• Psalms 6:5

  For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

• Psalms 23:4

  Even 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.

• Psalms 30:9

  “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

• Psalms 31:5

  Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

• Psalms 37:37

  Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

• Psalms 39:4

  “Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

• Psalms 39:13

  Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

• Psalms 49:7

  none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

• Psalms 49:9

  that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

• Psalms 49:15

  But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

• Psalms 68:20

  God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

• Psalms 73:24

  You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

• Psalms 82:7

  Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

• Psalms 88:9

  My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

• Psalms 88:10

  Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.

• Psalms 88:11

  Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

• Psalms 88:12

  Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

• Psalms 88:13

  But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

• Psalms 88:14

  Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 89:48

  What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

• Psalms 90:3

  You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

• Psalms 90:12

  So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

• Psalms 103:14

  For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

• Psalms 103:15

  As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

• Psalms 103:16

  For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

• Psalms 104:29

  You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

• Psalms 115:17

  The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

• Psalms 116:15

  Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

• Psalms 143:3

  For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

• Psalms 144:4

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Psalms 146:4

  His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

• Proverbs 14:32

  The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

• Ecclesiastes 2:14

  The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness — and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

• Ecclesiastes 2:15

  Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:16

  For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

• Ecclesiastes 2:17

  So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18

  I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

• Ecclesiastes 3:2

  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

• Ecclesiastes 3:19

  For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 3:20

  All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

• Ecclesiastes 3:21

  Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

• Ecclesiastes 4:2

  Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

• Ecclesiastes 5:15

  As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

• Ecclesiastes 6:6

  Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

• Ecclesiastes 6:10

  Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

• Ecclesiastes 7:1

  A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

• Ecclesiastes 7:2

  It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

• Ecclesiastes 7:15

  All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

• Ecclesiastes 8:8

  There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3

  This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

• Ecclesiastes 9:4

  For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

• Ecclesiastes 9:5

  For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

• Ecclesiastes 9:6

  Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 9:10

  Whatever 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.

• Ecclesiastes 11:7

  Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 11:8

  Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Isaiah 25:8

  He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

• Isaiah 38:1

  In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

• Isaiah 38:10

  I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

• Isaiah 38:11

  I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

• Isaiah 38:12

  My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:13

  I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:18

  For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

• Isaiah 38:19

  The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

• Isaiah 40:7

  The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

• Isaiah 51:12

  “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

• Isaiah 57:1

  The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

• Isaiah 57:2

  He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

• Jeremiah 8:3

  Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Jeremiah 9:21

  For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

• Lamentations 1:19

  “I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

• Daniel 12:2

  Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

• Daniel 12:13

  But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.

• Hosea 13:14

  I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

• Jonah 4:8

  When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

• Zechariah 1:5

  Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

• Matthew 10:28

  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.

• Luke 2:29

  “Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

• Luke 12:20

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’

• Luke 12:35

  “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

• Luke 12:36

  Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

• Luke 12:37

  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

• Luke 16:22

  The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

• Luke 20:34

  Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

• Luke 20:35

  But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

• Luke 20:36

  For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

• Luke 20:37

  But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

• Luke 20:38

  Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”

• Luke 23:39

  One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

• Luke 23:40

  But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

• Luke 23:41

  And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

• Luke 23:42

  He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

• Luke 23:43

  Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

• John 9:4

  I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

• John 11:11

  He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

• Acts 5:10

  She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

• Acts 7:59

  They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

• Acts 7:60

  He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

• Acts 13:36

  For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

• Romans 5:14

  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

• Romans 14:7

  For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

• Romans 14:8

  For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

• 1 Corinthians 3:21

  Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

• 1 Corinthians 3:22

  whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

• 1 Corinthians 3:23

  and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

• 1 Corinthians 15:6

  Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

• 1 Corinthians 15:18

  Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

• 1 Corinthians 15:21

  For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

• 1 Corinthians 15:22

  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

• 1 Corinthians 15:26

  The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

• 1 Corinthians 15:51

  Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

• 1 Corinthians 15:52

  in 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.

• 1 Corinthians 15:53

  For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

• 1 Corinthians 15:54

  But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

• 1 Corinthians 15:55

  “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

• 1 Corinthians 15:56

  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

• 1 Corinthians 15:57

  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 1:9

  Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

• 2 Corinthians 1:10

  who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

• 2 Corinthians 5:1

  For 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.

• 2 Corinthians 5:2

  For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

• 2 Corinthians 5:4

  For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

• 2 Corinthians 5:8

  We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

• Philippians 1:20

  according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

• Philippians 1:21

  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

• Philippians 1:22

  But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

• Philippians 1:23

  But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

• Philippians 1:24

  Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

• Philippians 2:23

  Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13

  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.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14

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

• 1 Thessalonians 4:15

  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.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:17

  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.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:9

  For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:10

  who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

• 1 Timothy 6:7

  For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

• 2 Timothy 1:10

  but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

• 2 Timothy 4:6

  For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

• 2 Timothy 4:7

  I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

• 2 Timothy 4:8

  From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

• Hebrews 2:14

  Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

• Hebrews 2:15

  and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

• Hebrews 9:27

  Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

• Hebrews 11:5

  By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

• Hebrews 11:13

  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

• Hebrews 13:14

  For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

• James 1:10

  and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

• James 1:11

  For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

• James 4:15

  For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

• 1 Peter 1:17

  If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

• 1 Peter 1:24

  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

• 2 Peter 1:11

  For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 1:14

  knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

• Revelation 1:18

  and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

• Revelation 6:8

  And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

• Revelation 9:6

  In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

• Revelation 14:13

  I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

• Revelation 20:12

  I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

• Revelation 20:13

  The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

• Revelation 20:14

  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

• Revelation 21:4

  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.”