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Bible Verses About the dead

18 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about the dead? Browse 18 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Ecclesiastes 9:5
King James (KJV)For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. of: or, of no man
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Wherefore , as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: for that: or, in whom
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Or a charmer , or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer .
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; committed: Heb. transgressed
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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