Death
200 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
44 sections
- Apostrophe To
- As a Judgment: Saul
- As a Judgment: Sodomites
- As a Judgment: Upon the Antediluvians
- Called Sleep
- Desired
- Desired by Moses
- Desired: Elijah
- Desired: Job
- Desired: Jonah
- Desired: Paul
- Desired: Simeon
- Exemption From: Elijah
- Exemption From: Enoch
- Exemption From: No Death in Heaven
- Exemption From: Promised to Saints at the Second Coming of Christ
- Figurative of Regeneration
- Miscellaneous Subjects: A Change
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Cut Down
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Gathered to Our People
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Called Giving up the Ghost
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Departing
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Fleeing As a Shadow
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Going Down Into Silence
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Going the Way Whence There is No Return
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Going to Thy Fathers
- Miscellaneous Subjects: King of Terrors
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Putting off This Tabernacle
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Requiring the Soul
- Miscellaneous Subjects: Returning to Dust
- Preparation For
- Scenes of Death of David
- Scenes of Death of Isaac
- Scenes of Death of Jacob
- Scenes of Death of Jesus
- Scenes of Death of Moses
- Scenes of Death of Paul
- Scenes of Death of Stephen
- Scenes of Death of Zechariah
- Second
- Spiritual
- Symbolized by the Pale Horse
- Symbolized: King of Terrors
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
Apostrophe To
- Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55 “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”
As a Judgment: Saul
- 1 Chronicles 10:13–14 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, …
As a Judgment: Sodomites
- Genesis 19:12–13 Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here — a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, …
- Genesis 19:24–25 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. …
As a Judgment: Upon the Antediluvians
- Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Called Sleep
- Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have …
- Job 7:21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 14:12 so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
- Jeremiah 51:39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
- Daniel 12:2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 11:11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
- Acts 7:60 Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
- Acts 13:36 For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- 1 Corinthians 15:6 After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14–15 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. …
Desired
- Jeremiah 8:3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Revelation 9:6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Desired by Moses
- Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now — if I have found favor in Your eyes — and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Desired: Elijah
- 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Desired: Job
- Job 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 6:8–11 If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: …
- Job 7:1–3 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? …
- Job 7:15–16 so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. …
- Job 10:1 “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 14:13 If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
Desired: Jonah
- Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Desired: Paul
- 2 Corinthians 5:2 For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
- 2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
- Philippians 1:20–23 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. …
Desired: Simeon
- Luke 2:29 “Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.
Exemption From: Elijah
- 2 Kings 2:1 Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
Exemption From: Enoch
- Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
- Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
Exemption From: No Death in Heaven
- Luke 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
- Revelation 21:4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Exemption From: Promised to Saints at the Second Coming of Christ
- 1 Corinthians 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15 By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
Figurative of Regeneration
- Romans 6:2–11 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? …
- Romans 7:1–10 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? …
- Romans 8:10–11 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. …
- Colossians 2:20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
Miscellaneous Subjects: A Change
- Job 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Cut Down
- Job 14:2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Gathered to Our People
- Genesis 49:33 When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Called Giving up the Ghost
- Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Lamentations 1:19 I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Acts 5:10 At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Departing
- Philippians 2:23 So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Fleeing As a Shadow
- Job 14:2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Going Down Into Silence
- Psalm 115:17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Going the Way Whence There is No Return
- Job 16:22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Going to Thy Fathers
- Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
- Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Miscellaneous Subjects: King of Terrors
- Job 18:14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Putting off This Tabernacle
- 2 Peter 1:14 because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Miscellaneous Subjects: Requiring the Soul
- Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Miscellaneous Subjects: Returning to Dust
- Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground — because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Psalm 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Preparation For
- Deuteronomy 32:29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- 2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
- Psalm 39:4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalm 39:13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 11:7–8 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. …
- Isaiah 38:18–19 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. …
- Luke 12:35–37 Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. …
- John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- Romans 14:8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- Hebrews 13:14 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- James 4:15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
- 1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
Scenes of Death of David
- 1 Kings 2:1–10 As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon, …
Scenes of Death of Isaac
- Genesis 27:1–4 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied. …
- Genesis 27:22–40 So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” …
Scenes of Death of Jacob
- Genesis 49:1–33 Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come: …
- Hebrews 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
Scenes of Death of Jesus
- Matthew 27:34–53 they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it. …
- Mark 15:23–38 There they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it. …
- Luke 23:27–49 A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him. …
- John 19:16–30 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away. …
Scenes of Death of Moses
- Deuteronomy 31:14–30 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting. …
- Deuteronomy 32:1–52 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. …
- Deuteronomy 33:1–29 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death. …
- Deuteronomy 34:1–7 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead as far as Dan, …
Scenes of Death of Paul
- 2 Timothy 4:6–8 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. …
Scenes of Death of Stephen
- Acts 7:59–60 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” …
Scenes of Death of Zechariah
- 2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
Second
- Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
- Ezekiel 18:10 Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
- Ezekiel 18:13 He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 18:23–24 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live? …
- Ezekiel 33:8–9 If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. …
- Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O …
- Ezekiel 33:14–16 But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right— …
- Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 25:30 And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Matthew 25:41 Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Mark 9:43–44 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. …
- Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 6:16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
- Romans 6:21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
- James 1:15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
- 2 Peter 2:12 These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
- Revelation 2:11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- Revelation 19:20 But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the …
- Revelation 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Spiritual
- Luke 1:79 to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
- John 5:24–26 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life. …
- John 6:50–51 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. …
- John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
- John 11:26 And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
- Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- Romans 7:11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
- Romans 8:5–6 Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. …
- Romans 8:12–13 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. …
- 2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Ephesians 2:5–6 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! …
- Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- Ephesians 5:14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
- Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- 1 Timothy 5:6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 John 5:12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Symbolized by the Pale Horse
- Revelation 6:8 Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
Symbolized: King of Terrors
- Job 18:14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from 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 brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground — because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 27:2 “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Joshua 23:14 Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- 1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- 1 Samuel 20:2–3 “Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!” …
- 2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- Job 1:21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 3:13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- Job 3:17–19 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. …
- Job 7:1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Job 7:8–10 The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. …
- Job 7:21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 10:21–22 before I go — never to return — to a land of darkness and gloom, …
- Job 14:2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Job 14:5–12 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, …
- Job 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Job 14:19–21 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope. …
- Job 16:22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 17:13–14 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, …
- Job 17:16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
- Job 21:23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
- Job 21:25–26 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity. …
- Job 21:32–33 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb. …
- Job 30:23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Job 34:14–15 If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, …
- Job 36:18–19 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray. …
- Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- Psalm 6:5 For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
- Psalm 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.
- Psalm 30:9 “What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
- Psalm 39:4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalm 39:13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalm 49:7 No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
- Psalm 49:9 that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- Psalm 68:20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
- Psalm 82:7 But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
- Psalm 88:9–14 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. …
- Psalm 89:48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
- Psalm 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalm 103:14–16 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. …
- Psalm 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Psalm 115:17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
- Psalm 143:3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalm 146:4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14–18 The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. …
- Ecclesiastes 3:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
- Ecclesiastes 3:19–21 For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other — they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile. …
- Ecclesiastes 4:2 So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 6:6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatever exists was named long ago, and it is known what man is; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1–2 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth. …
- Ecclesiastes 7:15 In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5–6 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. …
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels — for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- Isaiah 38:1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
- Isaiah 38:10–13 I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” …
- Isaiah 38:18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- Isaiah 51:12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- Jeremiah 9:21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
- Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- Zechariah 1:5 Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Luke 20:34–38 Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. …
- Luke 23:39–43 One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!” …
- John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
- 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. …
- 1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55–57 “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” …
- 1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
- 2 Timothy 1:10 And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
- Hebrews 2:14–15 Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, …
- Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Hebrews 13:14 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- James 1:10–11 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. …
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- Revelation 1:18 the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Revelation 20:12–14 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. …
- Revelation 21:4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Related topics
Death of the WickedDeath of the RighteousThe Death of SaintsThe Death of the WickedThe Death of ChristThe Death of Christ was Voluntary
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.