30 Bible Verses About Life and Death (KJV)

Here are 30 Bible verses about life and death from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Deuteronomy 30:15 KJV

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

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Matthew 22:32 KJV

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

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2 Timothy 4:1 KJV

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

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Ezekiel 32:26 KJV

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

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1 Corinthians 15:36 KJV

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

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2 Corinthians 5:4 KJV

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

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2 Samuel 15:21 KJV

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

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Ezekiel 32:25 KJV

They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

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Acts 10:42 KJV

And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.

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1 Peter 4:5 KJV

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

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2 Corinthians 4:12 KJV

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

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Proverbs 18:21 KJV

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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Jonah 1:14 KJV

Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

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Romans 7:9 KJV

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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Romans 14:8 KJV

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

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1 Corinthians 3:22 KJV

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

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Romans 14:9 KJV

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

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Ezekiel 32:27 KJV

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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Luke 20:38 KJV

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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Ezekiel 32:23 KJV

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

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Mark 12:27 KJV

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

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Ecclesiastes 5:16 KJV

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

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John 5:24 KJV

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

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Jeremiah 21:8 KJV

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

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Philippians 1:20 KJV

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

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Ezekiel 32:24 KJV

There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

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Ezekiel 32:32 KJV

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

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Ruth 2:20 KJV

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

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2 Corinthians 2:16 KJV

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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