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Bible on Death

1,147 passages in the Bible address death, in the King James Version translation.

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And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Numbers 17:12 · Bible · Numbers
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
John 12:33 · Bible · John
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Hosea 13:14 · Bible · Hosea
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Revelation 9:6 · Bible · Revelation
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:29 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Proverbs 2:18 · Bible · Proverbs
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Corinthians 15:55 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:17 · Bible · Numbers
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14:8 · Bible · Romans
So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
1 Chronicles 10:6 · Bible · 1 Chronicles
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
1 Corinthians 8:11 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 · Bible · Numbers
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms 41:5 · Bible · Psalms
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24:16 · Bible · Deuteronomy
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Revelation 20:13 · Bible · Revelation
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:12 · Bible · Exodus
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psalms 88:10 · Bible · Psalms
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:21 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:6 · Bible · Deuteronomy
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalms 49:14 · Bible · Psalms
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Revelation 20:14 · Bible · Revelation
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:11 · Bible · Romans
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Job 36:12 · Bible · Job
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 6:5 · Bible · Psalms
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.
John 18:32 · Bible · John
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
Genesis 35:20 · Bible · Genesis
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Romans 6:9 · Bible · Romans
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
Numbers 17:13 · Bible · Numbers
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans 6:10 · Bible · Romans
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job 38:17 · Bible · Job
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Mark 7:10 · Bible · Mark
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
1 John 5:16 · Bible · 1 John
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:10 · Bible · Psalms
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Matthew 15:4 · Bible · Matthew
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Romans 5:7 · Bible · Romans
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers 16:49 · Bible · Numbers
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers 20:3 · Bible · Numbers
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Romans 14:9 · Bible · Romans
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:8 · Bible · Philippians
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
2 Chronicles 25:4 · Bible · 2 Chronicles
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Judges 16:30 · Bible · Judges
And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
Leviticus 16:1 · Bible · Leviticus
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles 24:15 · Bible · 2 Chronicles
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 89:48 · Bible · Psalms
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 38:18 · Bible · Isaiah
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John 11:50 · Bible · John
The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
John 12:17 · Bible · John
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians 1:9 · Bible · 2 Corinthians
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:12 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 3:14 · Bible · 1 John
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers 35:31 · Bible · Numbers
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms 88:5 · Bible · Psalms
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:16 · Bible · Numbers
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy 21:22 · Bible · Deuteronomy
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 24:17 · Bible · Job
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luke 16:22 · Bible · Luke
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:12 · Bible · Romans
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:11 · Bible · 2 Corinthians
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:15 · Bible · 2 Corinthians
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings 7:4 · Bible · 2 Kings
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