Bible Verses About Death: Of the righteous

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says the LORD.

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” They brought back this message to the king.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Kefa, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

and you are Messiah’s, and Messiah is God’s.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

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

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Messiah will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For to me to live is Messiah, and to die is gain.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is far better.

Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,