100+ Biblical Quotes on Death for Comfort, Hope & Strength

"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." — John 11:25

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive." — 1 Corinthians 15:22

"And I heard a voice from heaven saying, 'Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" — Revelation 14:13

"But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep." — 1 Corinthians 15:20

"The trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." — 1 Corinthians 15:52

"Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice." — John 5:28

"Believing that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked." — Acts 24:15

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven… and the dead in Christ will rise first." — 1 Thessalonians 4:16

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning." — Revelation 21:4

"Your brother will rise again." — John 11:23

"This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." — 1 Corinthians 15:53

"Because I live, you also will live." — John 14:19

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." — Matthew 5:4

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." — Psalm 34:18

"Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." — Psalm 30:5

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." — 1 Peter 5:7

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble." — Psalm 46:1

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." — Psalm 147:3

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." — Psalm 23:4

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." — Psalm 23:1

"I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation." — John 16:33

"Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." — Galatians 6:2

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end." — Lamentations 3:22

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you." — John 14:27

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." — John 3:16

"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life." — John 3:36

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life." — John 5:24

"This is the promise that he made to us—eternal life." — 1 John 2:25

"To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life." — Romans 2:7

"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." — John 17:3

"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." — Acts 16:31

"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." — 1 John 5:13

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." — Acts 4:12

"Be saved from this corrupt generation." — Acts 2:40

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." — Romans 6:23

"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." — Romans 10:13

"Today you will be with me in paradise." — Luke 23:43

"Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." — Ecclesiastes 12:7

"Immediately the man died and fell at his feet, and his soul departed." — Acts 5:5

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." — Psalm 116:15

"Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people." — Genesis 25:8

"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." — Philippians 1:21

"I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far." — Philippians 1:23

"They will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them." — Revelation 14:13

"The righteous will go into eternal life." — Matthew 25:46

"The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God." — Wisdom 3:1 (Apocrypha)

"My flesh will dwell in safety. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol." — Psalm 16:9–10

"Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." — Genesis 2:7

"A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." — Psalm 90:4

"Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow." — Psalm 144:4

"All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall." — 1 Peter 1:24

"You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." — James 4:14

"The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we have the strength—yet their span is but trouble and sorrow." — Psalm 90:10

"In the midst of life we are in death." — Book of Common Prayer (inspired by Scripture)

"For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away." — James 4:14 (KJV)

"As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before God." — Psalm 68:2

"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, 'I find no pleasure in them.'" — Ecclesiastes 12:1

"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." — Psalm 90:12

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." — Psalm 90:12 (KJV)

"For he knows how we are formed; he remembers that we are dust." — Psalm 103:14

"For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he will stand at the last on the earth." — Job 19:25

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." — Hebrews 6:19

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him." — 1 Corinthians 2:9

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." — 2 Corinthians 4:16

"Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all." — 2 Corinthians 4:17

"We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." — 2 Corinthians 5:8

"Looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God." — Hebrews 11:10

"They were longing for a better country—a heavenly one." — Hebrews 11:16

"But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep." — 1 Corinthians 15:20

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life... will be able to separate us from the love of God." — Romans 8:38–39

"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." — 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV)

"We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." — 2 Corinthians 4:18

"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." — 2 Corinthians 5:8

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." — Ecclesiastes 12:7

"Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." — Acts 7:55

"Into your hands I commit my spirit." — Luke 23:46

"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." — Daniel 12:2

"The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." — Job 1:21

"I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death." — Hosea 13:14

"Death is swallowed up in victory." — 1 Corinthians 15:54

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" — 1 Corinthians 15:55

"For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." — Philippians 1:21

"This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." — Winston Churchill (inspired by Christian thought)

"Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." — Job 19:26

"The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up." — 1 Samuel 2:6

"See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life." — Deuteronomy 32:39

"It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." — Hebrews 9:27

"Is it not laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries? Vengeance is mine, and recompense." — Deuteronomy 32:34–35

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father." — Matthew 10:29

"The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD." — Proverbs 16:33

"Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." — Matthew 10:30

"Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart." — Job 1:21

"The times of your life are in my hands." — Psalm 31:15 (paraphrased)

"You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb." — Psalm 139:13

"In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind." — Job 12:10

"With God is wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding." — Job 12:13

"Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will prosper." — Ecclesiastes 11:6

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning." — Ecclesiastes 9:10

"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." — Psalm 90:12

"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." — 1 Corinthians 10:31

"Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." — Matthew 5:16

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, but store up treasures in heaven." — Matthew 6:19–20

"Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus." — 2 Timothy 1:13

"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have." — Hebrews 13:5

"Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time." — Colossians 4:5

"Redeem the time, because the days are evil." — Ephesians 5:16 (KJV)

"Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." — Galatians 6:9

"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." — Colossians 3:2

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." — 2 Timothy 4:7

"Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord will award to me on that day." — 2 Timothy 4:8

"My time has come," said David. "I am about to go the way of all the earth." — 1 Kings 2:2

"Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him." — Deuteronomy 34:9

"Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long." — Deuteronomy 33:12

"Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!" — Numbers 23:10

"So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, 'It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.'" — Genesis 32:30

"After he had been buried, his sons took over his kingdom." — 2 Chronicles 21:1

"He led captivity captive and gave gifts to his people." — Psalm 68:18

"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." — 1 Corinthians 15:51

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." — Psalm 116:15

"Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, 'Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" — Revelation 14:13