2714 verses about Death

Call no man blessed before his death; And a man will be known in his children.

Remember that death will not wait, And that the covenant of the grave is not showed to you.

Do well to your friend before you die; And according to your ability stretch out your hand and give to him.

Give, and take, and decieve your soul; For there is no seeking of luxury in the grave.

All flesh waxes old as a garment; For the covenant from the beginning is, You shall die the death.

As of the leaves flourishing on a thick tree, Some it sheds, and some it makes to grow; So also of the generations of flesh and blood, One comes to an end, and another is born.

Every work rots and falls away, And the worker thereof shall depart with it.

Before man is life and death; And whichever he likes, it shall be given him.

Trust not you in their life, Neither rely on their condition: For one is better than a thousand; And to die childless than to have ungodly children.

He pitied not the people of perdition, Who were taken away in their sins.

All manner of living things covered the face thereof; And into it is their return.

The Lord created man of the earth, And turned him back to it again.

He gave them days by number, and a set time, And gave them authority over the things that are thereon.

Who will give praise to the Most High in the grave, Instead of them which live and return thanks?

Thanksgiving perishes from the dead, as from one that is not: He that is in life and health will praise the Lord.

For all things can’t be in men, Because the son of man is not immortal.

He looks upon the power of the height of heaven: And all men are earth and ashes.

The number of man’s days at the most are a hundred years.

Let nothing hinder you to pay your vow in due time; And wait not until death to be justified.

Moths and worms will have him to heritage; And a reckless soul will be taken away.

Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent; For if you draw near it will bite you: The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, Slaying the souls of men.

Weep for the dead, for light has failed him; And weep for a fool, for understanding has failed him: Weep more sweetly for the dead, because he has found rest; But the life of the fool is worse than death.

Seven days are the days of mourning for the dead; But for a fool and an ungodly man, all the days of his life.

There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death: Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob; For all these things will be far from the godly, And they will not wallow in sins.

All bread is sweet to a fornicator: He will not leave off till he die.

From a woman was the beginning of sin; And because of her we all die.

Of three things my heart was afraid; And concerning the fourth kind I made supplication: The slander of a city, and the assembly of a multitude, and a false accusation: All these are more grievous than death.

Remember your last end, and cease from enmity: Remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

The death thereof is an evil death; And Hades were better than it.

His father dieth, and is as though he had not died; For he has left one behind him like himself.

In his life, he saw and rejoiced in him; And when he died, he sorrowed not:

Death is better than a bitter life, And eternal rest than a continual sickness.

Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed Are as messes of meat laid upon a grave.

Envy and wrath shorten a man’s days; And care brings old age before the time.

Good is the opposite of evil, And life is the opposite of death: So is the sinner is the opposite of the godly.

In the day that you endest the days of your life, And in the time of death, distribute your inheritance.

Ofttimes was I in danger even to death; And I was preserved because of these things.

He that washes himself after touching a dead body, and touches it again, What profit has he in his washing?

Is there not a grief in it even to death, When a companion and friend is turned to enmity?

four manner of things do rise up, Good and evil, life and death; And that which rules over them continually is the tongue.

The life of man is counted by days; And the days of Israel are innumerable.

My son, let your tears fall over the dead, And as one that suffers grievously begin lamentation; And wind up his body according to his due, And neglect not his burial.

Make bitter weeping, and make passionate wailing, And let your mourning be according to his desert, For one day or two, lest you be evil spoken of: And so be comforted for your sorrow.

For of sorrow comes death, And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.

In calamity sorrow also remains: And the poor man’s life is grievous to the heart.

Give not your heart to sorrow: Put it away, remembering the last end:

Forget it not, for there is no returning again: Him you shall not profit, and you will hurt yourself.

Remember the sentence upon him; for so also shall your be; Yesterday for me, and today for you.

When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; And be comforted for him, when his spirit departs from him.

If he continue, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand: And if he die, he adds thereto.

Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, All these are created for vengeance;

Great travail is created for every man, And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things.

The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, Trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;

From him that sits on a throne of glory, Even to him that is humbled in earth and ashes;

There is wrath, and jealousy, and trouble, and disquiet, And fear of death, and anger, and strife; And in the time of rest upon his bed His night sleep does change his knowledge.

It is thus with all flesh, from man to beast, And upon sinners sevenfold more.

Death, and bloodshed, and strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

All things that are of the earth turn to the earth again: And all things that are of the waters return into the sea.

The sedge that grows upon every water and bank of a river Shall be plucked up before all grass.

My son, lead not a beggar’s life; Better it is to die than to beg.

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions, To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things, And that still has strength to receive meat!

O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength, That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things, And is perverse, and has lost patience!

Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death; Remember those who have been before you, and that come after: This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.

And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years, There is no inquisition of life in the grave.

The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, And with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

If you⌃ be born, you⌃ shall be born to a curse; If you⌃ die, a curse shall be your portion.

All things that are of the earth shall go back to the earth: So the ungodly shall go from a curse to perdition.

The mourning of men is about their bodies: But the name of sinners being evil shall be blotted out.

A good life has its number of days; And a good name continueth forever.

And some there be, which have no memorial; Who are perished as though they had not been, And are become as though they had not been born; And their children after them.

Their bodies were buried in peace, And their name lives to all generations.

Also before the time of his long sleep He made protestations in the sight of the lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: And no man did accuse him.

And after he fell asleep he prophesied, And showed the king his end, And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, To blot out the wickedness of the people.

Who did raise up a dead man from death, And from the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High:

Who brought down kings to destruction, And honorable men from their bed:

Nothing was too high for him; And when he was laid on sleep his body prophesied.

As in his life he did wonders, So in death were his works marvelous.

Out of the depth of the belly of the grave, And from an unclean tongue, And from lying words,

The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near even to death, And my life was near to the grave beneath.

And I lifted up my supplication from the earth, And prayed for deliverance from death.

That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.

open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:

And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.

that you are counted with those who go down into the grave?

they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.

They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.

O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever: for he has rescued us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death: he has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame, even out of the midst of the fire has he delivered us.

Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I can’t escape your hands.

And it came to pass on the morrow, when the people assembled to her husband Joakim, the two elders came full of their wicked intent against Susanna to put her to death;

Then the assembly believed them, as those that were elders of the people and judges: so they condemned her to death.

you know that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.

Therefore when she was led away to be put to death, God raised up the holy spirit of a young youth, whose name was Daniel:

and according to the law of Moses they did to them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbor: and they put them to death, and the innocent blood was saved the same day.

and when you come in the morning, if you find not that Bel has eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaks falsely against us.

And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.

And he called his servants, which were honorable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive.

And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.