Life and Death (Bible Verses)

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Proverbs 4:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 18:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Philippians 1:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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:

Psalms 118:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

2 Corinthians 2:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

Genesis 3:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 2:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Isaiah 38:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Ezekiel 18:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Ezekiel 18:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

1 Samuel 2:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Job 12:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Deuteronomy 30:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Isaiah 38:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Philippians 1:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

Proverbs 8:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Isaiah 38:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Proverbs 10:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Deuteronomy 30:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

2 Corinthians 2:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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?

Genesis 25:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Luke 7:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

Proverbs 10:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Matthew 9:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Numbers 23:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Job 21:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Job 3:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Psalms 49:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Job 24:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Isaiah 38:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Psalms 104:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

Isaiah 38:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 38:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

2 Chronicles 21:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

Proverbs 9:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Luke 12:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

1 Kings 17:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

Psalms 104:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Proverbs 12:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Numbers 19:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Deuteronomy 32:50 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

2 Kings 20:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 9:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Genesis 47:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Isaiah 38:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

John 12:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

2 Kings 20:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

Psalms 49:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Isaiah 38:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Deuteronomy 30:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

John 11:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

2 Kings 4:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

Job 21:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Deuteronomy 30:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

Isaiah 38:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

2 Samuel 14:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Isaiah 38:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

John 11:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.

Genesis 5:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.

Luke 7:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

1 Kings 17:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Isaiah 38:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

Job 21:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 3:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Genesis 25:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

1 Kings 17:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

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