21 Bible Verses About Death

The Bible treats death as the end every person faces and as an enemy that Christ defeats. It traces death to sin and asks the living to reckon with their own mortality. Scripture speaks of God’s care for his people as they die and calls the Christian dead those who sleep. The New Testament adds the resurrection of Jesus, a judgment after death, and the promise that death itself will be destroyed. Where death comes from Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just…