What does the Bible say about the dead?

18 verses about the dead, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

15 booksMost in Ecclesiastes

Bible verses about the dead

Ecclesiastes 9:5 — 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. 5 votes
Hebrews 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 5 votes
Leviticus 19:31 — Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 4 votes
Psalms 115:17 — The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 4 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:12 — That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 4 votes
1 John 4:1 — Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 4 votes
Isaiah 8:19 — And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 3 votes
Luke 16:19 — There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 3 votes
John 3:16 — For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 3 votes
1 Timothy 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 3 votes
Deuteronomy 18:11 — Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 2 votes
1 Chronicles 10:13 — So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; 2 votes
Psalms 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 2 votes
Ecclesiastes 12:7 — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 2 votes
Daniel 12:2 — 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. 2 votes
Luke 16:26 — And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 2 votes
Acts 4:12 — Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 2 votes
Romans 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 2 votes

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Psalms (2), Ecclesiastes (2), Luke (2), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Daniel (1), John (1), Acts (1), Romans (1), 1 Thessalonians (1) and 3 more

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