What Does the Bible Say About Death Of A Friend?

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 128 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

John 14:1-3 ESV / 114 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.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 47 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 40 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.

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 ESV / 36 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.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 22 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. ...

Romans 5:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 15 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.”

John 3:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 11:38-44 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

John 11:25-26 ESV / 10 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?”

John 3:16 ESV / 9 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.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 8 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.

Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 8 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.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

James 2:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

John 11:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jesus wept.

Isaiah 40:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

John 14:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

John 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Luke 23:43 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 6 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.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Acts 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

John 16:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 14:27 ESV / 5 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.

Matthew 5:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 51:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Revelation 14:13 ESV / 4 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!”

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 4 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 4 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. ...

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 14:8 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Romans 14:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 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. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Joshua 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

60 Bible Verses about Death Of A Friend

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 128 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-3 ESV / 114 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:38-44 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 6:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:25-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 23:43 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 51:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 14:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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