Death: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

…saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. …

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. …

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

…before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

…to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, …

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

…as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope. …

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

…and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

…all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

…that he should live on forever and not see decay.

Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. …

What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. …

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. …

…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile. …

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

…even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Whatever exists was named long ago, and it is known what man is; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

…when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” …

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. …

One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!” …

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” …

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

…and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

…the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. …

‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”