What Does the Bible Say About Dead People?

“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”

“As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:”

“His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.”

“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”

“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”

“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?”

“But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. power: Heb. hand the grave: or, hell”

“Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.”

“The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.”

“The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”

“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.”

“Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.”

“But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.”

“Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.”

“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.”

“For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.”

“And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,”

“Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold , there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.”

“While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.”

“And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:”

“Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.”

“There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:”

“But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:”

“Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”

“And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:”

“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.”

“And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”

“And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed , they laid her in an upper chamber.”

“And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.”

“Women received their dead raised to life again : and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:”