Bible Verses About Death

Look, I will tell you a secret — not all of us will die! But we will all be changed!

It will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we too will be changed.

For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.

When what decays puts on imperishability and what is mortal puts on immortality, then this passage in the Tanakh will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.

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

The sting of death is sin; and sin draws its power from the Torah;

but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!

In our hearts we felt we were under sentence of death. However, this was to get us to rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead!

He rescued us from such deadly peril, and he will rescue us again! The one in whom we have placed our hope will indeed continue to rescue us.

It all accords with my earnest expectation and hope that I will have nothing to be ashamed of; but rather, now, as always, the Messiah will be honored by my body, whether it is alive or dead.

For to me, life is the Messiah, and death is gain.

I am caught in a dilemma: my desire is to go off and be with the Messiah — that is better by far —

but because of you, the greater need is to stay on in the body.

Now, brothers, we want you to know the truth about those who have died; otherwise, you might become sad the way other people

do who have nothing to hope for. For since we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, we also believe that in the same way God, through Yeshua, will take with him those who have died.

For God has not intended that we should experience his fury, but that we should gain deliverance through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,

who died on our behalf so that whether we are alive or dead, we may live along with him.

For as for me, I am already being poured out on the altar; yes, the time for my departure has arrived.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

All that awaits me now is the crown of righteousness which the Lord, “the Righteous Judge,” will award to me on that Day — and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for him to appear.

Therefore, since the children share a common physical nature as human beings, he became like them and shared that same human nature; so that by his death he might render ineffective the one who had power over death (that is, the Adversary)

and thus set free those who had been in bondage all their lives because of their fear of death.

But let the rich brother boast about his being humbled; since, like a wildflower, he will pass away.

For just as the sun rises with the sharav and dries up the plant, so that its flower falls off and its beauty is destroyed, so too the rich person going about his business will wither away.

And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done.