24 Bible Verses About Dying

  • Genesis 3:19 traces death to God’s word to Adam after he ate from the forbidden tree: “to dust you will return.”
  • Psalm 90:10 puts a life at seventy or eighty years, and verse 12 asks God to teach us to number our days.
  • In Philippians 1:21-23 Paul, writing in chains, weighs living against dying and calls departing to be with Christ “better by far.”
  • Jesus tells Martha “I am the resurrection and the life” before he raises her brother Lazarus (John 11).
  • Revelation 21:4 lists death with mourning, crying and pain as part of “the old order of things” that has passed away.

In the Bible, dying is the end God set for human life after the first sin, and Jesus claims power over it. God tells Adam, “to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19); Jesus tells Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). Scripture also describes how short a life is (Job 14:1-2, Psalm 90:12), shows believers facing their own deaths (Psalm 23:4, Philippians 1:21-23, 2 Timothy 4:7-8), records Jesus’ answer to the criminal crucified beside him (Luke 23:43),…

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