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Powerful Bible Verses about Death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Death can be one of the most difficult topics to deal with, but it is a reality that all face in life. Fortunately, many bible verses can provide solace and comfort when dealing with the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bible contains powerful verses about death that can help us grieve and ultimately find peace. These scriptures often offer perspective on our grief by putting death into perspective as part of God’s plan, emphasizing the hope we have in Jesus’ resurrection, and reminding us we need not fear death if we are living faithfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we have rounded up over 250 powerful scriptural verses in the Bible that talk about fear. Carefully read through!<\/p>\n\n\n\nScriptural Verses about Death<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Romans 8:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Romans 6:23 (NIV)\n<\/strong>For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Corinthians 15:55 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cWhere, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Revelation 20:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Kings 1:1 (NIV)\n<\/strong>After Ahab\u2019s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Romans 8:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Romans 8:38 (NIV)\n<\/strong>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Colossians 3:5 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Numbers 35:19 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 13:9 (NIV)\n<\/strong>You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 24:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Kings 19:17 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Jeremiah 43:11 (NIV)\n<\/strong>He will come and attack Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Daniel 2:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 10:21 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cBrother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Mark 13:12 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cBrother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Acts 2:24 (NIV)\n<\/strong>But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Romans 5:12 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned\u2014<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Philippians 2:8 (NIV)\n<\/strong>And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death\u2014 even death on a cross!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 John 3:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Revelation 9:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 23:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Punish them with the rod and save them from death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 26:18 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Corinthians 15:26 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The last enemy to be destroyed is death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Kings 14:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: \u201cParents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Chronicles 25:4 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: \u201cParents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 John 5:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Short Bible Verses about Death<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Genesis 25:11 (NIV)\n<\/strong>After Abraham\u2019s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Genesis 27:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Isaac said, \u201cI am now an old man and don\u2019t know the day of my death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Exodus 21:12 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cAnyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Exodus 21:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cAnyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Exodus 21:17 (NIV)
\u201cAnyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\nExodus 22:19 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cAnyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 24:17 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201c\u2006\u2018Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 27:29 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201c\u2006\u2018No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 30:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Samuel 2:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Samuel 20:32 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cWhy should he be put to death? What has he done?\u201d Jonathan asked his father.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 6:23 (NIV)\n<\/strong>And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 13:39 (NIV)\n<\/strong>And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he was consoled concerning Amnon\u2019s death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 22:5 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 22:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Kings 21:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Then they sent word to Jezebel: \u201cNaboth has been stoned to death.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 7:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 9:23 (NIV)\n<\/strong>When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 17:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 18:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>It eats away parts of his skin; death\u2019s firstborn devours his limbs.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 28:22 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Destruction and Death say, \u201cOnly a rumor of it has reached our ears.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 33:22 (NIV)\n<\/strong>They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 18:4 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 18:5 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 33:19 (NIV)\n<\/strong>to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 37:32 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, intent on putting them to death;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 55:4 (NIV)\n<\/strong>My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 68:20 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 72:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 88:3 (NIV)\n<\/strong>I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 89:48 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 94:21 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 102:20 (NIV)\n<\/strong>to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 107:18 (NIV)\n<\/strong>They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 116:8 (NIV)\n<\/strong>For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 116:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 118:18 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 2:18 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 5:5 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 7:27 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 8:36 (NIV)\n<\/strong>But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 10:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 11:4 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 11:19 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Truly the righteous attain life, but whoever pursues evil finds death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 15:11 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Death and Destruction lie open before the Lord\u2014 how much more do human hearts!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 16:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>A king\u2019s wrath is a messenger of death, but the wise will appease it.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 17:11 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 24:11 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 27:20 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Isaiah 57:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 26:66 (NIV)\n<\/strong>What do you think?\u201d \u201cHe is worthy of death,\u201d they answered.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Luke 22:33 (NIV)\n<\/strong>But he replied, \u201cLord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
John 8:51 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
John 11:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
John 12:33 (NIV)\n<\/strong>He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Acts 5:33 (NIV)\n<\/strong>When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Acts 12:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Romans 7:10 (NIV)\n<\/strong>I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Corinthians 15:56 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Corinthians 4:12 (NIV)\n<\/strong>So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Hebrews 2:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Hebrews 7:23 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 John 5:17 (NIV)\n<\/strong>All wrongdoing is sin, and there is a sin that does not lead to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Powerful Bible Verses about Death and Anxiety<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Exodus 21:28 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cIf a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 24:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. When they blaspheme the name, whether foreigner or native-born, they will be executed.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Numbers 35:28 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Numbers 35:30 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201c\u2006\u2018Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 17:6 (NIV)\n<\/strong>On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Jeremiah 15:2 (NIV)\n<\/strong>And if they ask you, \u2018Where shall we go?\u2019 tell them, \u2018This is what the Lord says: \u201c\u2006\u2018Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.\u2019<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Hosea 13:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>\u201cI will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? \u201cI will have no compassion,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Hebrews 2:9 (NIV)\nBut we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Hebrews 2:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death\u2014that is, the devil\u2014<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Genesis 38:7 (NIV)\n<\/strong>But Er, Judah\u2019s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord\u2019s sight; so the Lord put him to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Genesis 38:10 (NIV)\n<\/strong>What he did was wicked in the Lord\u2019s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 24:21 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Numbers 15:36 (NIV)\n<\/strong>So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 21:22 (NIV)\n<\/strong>If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 33:1 (NIV)\n<\/strong>This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Joshua 1:1 (NIV)\n<\/strong>After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses\u2019 aide:<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Judges 16:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Samuel 11:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>But Saul said, \u201cNo one will be put to death today, for this day the Lord has rescued Israel.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 1:1 (NIV)\n<\/strong>After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 Samuel 19:21 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, \u201cShouldn\u2019t Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the Lord\u2019s anointed.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1 Kings 11:40 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon\u2019s death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 3:21 (NIV)\n<\/strong>to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 5:20 (NIV)\n<\/strong>In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 30:23 (NIV)\n<\/strong>I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Job 38:17 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 9:13 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 13:3 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 44:22 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 78:31 (NIV)\n<\/strong>God\u2019s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 88:15 (NIV)\n<\/strong>From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 90:5 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death\u2014 they are like the new grass of the morning:<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 94:17 (NIV)\n<\/strong>Unless the Lord had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Psalms 109:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 10:16 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs 13:14 (NIV)\n<\/strong>The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n