This blog post is dedicated to honoring those we have lost so far this year. I know that you are thinking of them as well and will be praying for them. If you know someone who has recently died and want to honor them with a Bible verse or two please leave it in the comments below. The verse or verses can act as a reminder for those of us in need of comfort, hope and healing
If you have recently lost a loved one, we hope that these Bible verses will help you make sense of your loss and help you to see that there is hope in life after death. This book includes over 100 passages of scripture that can bring comfort during this difficult time.
Bible Verses About Someone Who Died
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 742 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Romans 14:8 ESV / 594 helpful votes
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 503 helpful votes
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Luke 23:43 ESV / 418 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
John 3:16 ESV / 360 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 285 helpful votes
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
John 11:26 ESV / 267 helpful votes
And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Romans 6:23 ESV / 261 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 249 helpful votes
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.
John 11:25-26 ESV / 239 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 234 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 ESV / 222 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” …
John 14:1-4 ESV / 182 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 168 helpful votes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Psalm 146:4 ESV / 162 helpful votes
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 161 helpful votes
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 152 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Ezekiel 18:32 ESV / 152 helpful votes
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
Revelation 14:13 ESV / 149 helpful votes
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 149 helpful votes
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Psalm 116:15 ESV / 141 helpful votes
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Psalm 73:26 ESV / 120 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Matthew 5:4 ESV / 119 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 116 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 115 helpful votes
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Philippians 1:21 ESV / 112 helpful votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Psalm 115:17 ESV / 105 helpful votes
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.
1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Job 14:14 ESV / 97 helpful votes
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 92 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Luke 2:29 ESV / 89 helpful votes
“Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;
Romans 8:13 ESV / 86 helpful votes
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 83 helpful votes
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
John 11:25 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
Ecclesiastes 3:2 ESV / 80 helpful votes
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 74 helpful votes
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 71 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
John 5:24 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 14:1-3 ESV / 69 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 69 helpful votes
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 67 helpful votes
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV / 66 helpful votes
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
1 Timothy 6:7 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
Psalm 39:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes
“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 ESV / 63 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 60 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
John 5:28-29 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
John 5:24-26 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Hebrews 13:14 ESV / 53 helpful votes
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 52 helpful votes
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
John 11:11-14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
John 14:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Proverbs 14:32 ESV / 48 helpful votes
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 47 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …
1 Corinthians 15:21 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
Daniel 12:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Romans 8:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Hosea 13:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
John 14:27 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
2 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
1 John 5:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Luke 20:36 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Psalm 30:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Revelation 9:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Ecclesiastes 8:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Ezekiel 18:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Philippians 1:23-24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
Acts 7:60 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Ezekiel 33:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes
If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Psalm 48:14 ESV / 31 helpful votes
That this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
Revelation 20:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 Corinthians 15:55-57 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 10:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Job 16:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 26 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
John 11:1-57 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. …
Bible Verses About Death That Offer Comfort in Times of Loss
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ROMANS 14:8
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“If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to God.”
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ECCLESIASTES 12:7
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“Before dust returns to the earth as it was before and the life-breath returns to God who gave it.”
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LUKE 23:43
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“Jesus replied, ‘I assure you that today you will be with me in paradise.’”
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JOHN 11:26
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“Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
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2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8
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“So we are always confident, because we know that while we are living in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord. We live by faith and not by sight. We are confident, and we would prefer to leave the body and to be at home with the Lord.”
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EZEKIEL 18:32
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“I most certainly don’t want anyone to die! This is what the Lord God says. Change your ways, and live!”
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PSALM 107:13-14
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“So they cried out to the Lord in their distress, and God saved them from their desperate circumstances. God brought them out from the darkness and deep gloom; he shattered their chains.”
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ROMANS 6:5
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“If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his.”
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MATTHEW 4:16
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“The people who lived in the dark have seen a great light, and a light has come upon those who lived in the region and in shadow of death.”
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PSALM 23:4
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“Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger because you are with me. Your rod and your staff — they protect me.”
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JOHN 5:24
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“I assure you that whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and won’t come under judgment but has passed from death into life.”
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ISAIAH 25:7-8
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“He will swallow up on this mountain the veil that is veiling all peoples, the shroud enshrouding all nations. He will swallow up death forever. The Lord God will wipe tears from every face; he will remove his people’s disgrace from off the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken.”
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JOHN 3:16-17
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“God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.”
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LUKE 1:78-79
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“Because of our God’s deep compassion, the dawn from heaven will break upon us, to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide us on the path of peace.”
