100 Bible Verses about The Immortal Soul

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 1,070 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.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 1,035 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 1,034 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 880 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 798 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 757 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 704 helpful votes

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

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 673 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 665 helpful votes

Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Romans 2:7 ESV / 662 helpful votes

To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

1 Corinthians 15:53 ESV / 551 helpful votes

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 544 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

John 3:13 ESV / 481 helpful votes

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

John 5:28-29 ESV / 429 helpful votes

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Job 32:8 ESV / 427 helpful votes

But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 425 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 405 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 ESV / 377 helpful votes

For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 377 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

1 Corinthians 15:51-58 ESV / 362 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” ...

1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 359 helpful votes

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Acts 2:29 ESV / 351 helpful votes

“Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 345 helpful votes

And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

1 Corinthians 15:54 ESV / 333 helpful votes

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Acts 2:34 ESV / 329 helpful votes

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 321 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

Genesis 1:20 ESV / 308 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 306 helpful votes

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV / 304 helpful votes

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Revelation 6:9 ESV / 299 helpful votes

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 299 helpful votes

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:4 ESV / 295 helpful votes

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 16:3 ESV / 288 helpful votes

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.

Luke 12:20 ESV / 288 helpful votes

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

1 Corinthians 15:53-54 ESV / 286 helpful votes

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Leviticus 21:11 ESV / 281 helpful votes

He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 266 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.

Acts 2:27 ESV / 260 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 252 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. ...

Genesis 1:24 ESV / 248 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Numbers 5:2 ESV / 246 helpful votes

“Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.

Numbers 6:11 ESV / 244 helpful votes

And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Leviticus 22:4 ESV / 237 helpful votes

None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,

Psalm 6:5 ESV / 236 helpful votes

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

Romans 8:11 ESV / 231 helpful votes

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Acts 2:41 ESV / 226 helpful votes

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 224 helpful votes

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 223 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 221 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

3 John 1:2 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 217 helpful votes

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.

Numbers 9:10 ESV / 215 helpful votes

“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:1-32 ESV / 210 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’? As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— ...

Numbers 9:6-7 ESV / 210 helpful votes

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

Zechariah 12:1 ESV / 208 helpful votes

The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

1 John 3:2 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 204 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

John 11:11-14 ESV / 202 helpful votes

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

Haggai 2:13 ESV / 195 helpful votes

Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”

Revelation 8:9 ESV / 192 helpful votes

A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Numbers 19:13 ESV / 192 helpful votes

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

1 Corinthians 15:50-54 ESV / 191 helpful votes

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Malachi 4:3 ESV / 191 helpful votes

And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 115:17 ESV / 191 helpful votes

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

Revelation 4:2 ESV / 190 helpful votes

At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

Romans 2:5-7 ESV / 190 helpful votes

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 190 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Romans 1:23 ESV / 189 helpful votes

And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Genesis 4:10 ESV / 189 helpful votes

And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 186 helpful votes

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Revelation 6:9-10 ESV / 185 helpful votes

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 185 helpful votes

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

John 6:40 ESV / 184 helpful votes

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

1 Corinthians 15:23 ESV / 183 helpful votes

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Numbers 6:6 ESV / 183 helpful votes

“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

Matthew 27:52 ESV / 181 helpful votes

The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3 ESV / 181 helpful votes

It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 ESV / 181 helpful votes

Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Numbers 19:11 ESV / 180 helpful votes

“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

Acts 7:59 ESV / 179 helpful votes

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Matthew 9:23-25 ESV / 179 helpful votes

And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

Acts 20:10 ESV / 178 helpful votes

But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

Matthew 16:25-26 ESV / 177 helpful votes

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 175 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Acts 9:40-41 ESV / 173 helpful votes

But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

Acts 20:9-11 ESV / 172 helpful votes

And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.

Acts 13:22 ESV / 171 helpful votes

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Acts 2:31 ESV / 171 helpful votes

He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

John 10:11 ESV / 162 helpful votes

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Philippians 2:30 ESV / 161 helpful votes

For he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.

Genesis 2:19 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 160 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Genesis 35:18 ESV / 159 helpful votes

And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 156 helpful votes

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

1 Timothy 6:12-16 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

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