Sacred Concord

Bible on Death

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

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:20 · Bible · Job
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 14:8 · Bible · Job
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Job 18:13 · Bible · Job
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job 30:24 · Bible · Job
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 1:6 · Bible · Psalms
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Psalms 7:13 · Bible · Psalms
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms 80:16 · Bible · Psalms
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Psalms 83:17 · Bible · Psalms
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms 107:10 · Bible · Psalms
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms 107:14 · Bible · Psalms
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Psalms 116:8 · Bible · Psalms
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:36 · Bible · Proverbs
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:14 · Bible · Proverbs
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27 · Bible · Proverbs
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 16:14 · Bible · Proverbs
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs 19:16 · Bible · Proverbs
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:18 · Bible · Proverbs
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 · Bible · Ecclesiastes
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 10:15 · Bible · Jeremiah
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
Jeremiah 38:24 · Bible · Jeremiah
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
Hosea 13:1 · Bible · Hosea
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
John 8:51 · Bible · John
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 3:15 · Bible · Acts
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts 22:4 · Bible · Acts
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Romans 10:7 · Bible · Romans
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
2 Corinthians 6:9 · Bible · 2 Corinthians
And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Hebrews 7:23 · Bible · Hebrews
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis 7:22 · Bible · Genesis
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:28 · Bible · Genesis
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:9 · Bible · Exodus
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27:29 · Bible · Leviticus
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 26:19 · Bible · Numbers
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
Numbers 35:20 · Bible · Numbers
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
1 Samuel 31:6 · Bible · 1 Samuel
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings 2:1 · Bible · 1 Kings
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings 13:30 · Bible · 1 Kings
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
1 Chronicles 23:22 · Bible · 1 Chronicles
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 27:5 · Bible · Job
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job 29:18 · Bible · Job
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:23 · Bible · Job
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 9:18 · Bible · Psalms
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms 13:3 · Bible · Psalms
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Psalms 48:14 · Bible · Psalms
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms 49:15 · Bible · Psalms
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Psalms 141:7 · Bible · Psalms
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 11:10 · Bible · Proverbs
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Proverbs 21:16 · Bible · Proverbs
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23:13 · Bible · Proverbs
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Amos 6:9 · Bible · Amos
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:8 · Bible · Matthew
Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Mark 14:64 · Bible · Mark
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luke 16:30 · Bible · Luke
And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
Luke 18:33 · Bible · Luke
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Luke 20:38 · Bible · Luke
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John 6:50 · Bible · John
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 · Bible · Romans
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:12 · Bible · Romans
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:9 · Bible · Romans
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
1 Corinthians 15:35 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians 15:42 · Bible · 1 Corinthians
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