early death
What does the Bible say about early death? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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1The just man perishes, and there is no one who acknowledges it in his heart; and men of mercy are taken away, for there is no one who understands. For the just man has been taken away before the face of malice. 2Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.
17Do not try to be overly just, and do not try to be more wise than is necessary, lest you become stupid.
5I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.” 6Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.
14consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
1Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. 2He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.
12Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
24He responded to him in the way of his virtue: Declare to me the brevity of my days. 25Do not call me back in the middle of my days: your years are from generation to generation.
20But God said to him: ‘Foolish one, this very night they require your soul of you. To whom, then, will those things belong, which you have prepared?’
25Jesus said to her: “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in me, even though he has died, he shall live. 26And everyone who lives and believes in me shall not die for eternity. Do you believe this?”
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
12be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
22And he said: “While he was yet alive, I fasted and wept on behalf of the infant. For I said: Who knows if the Lord may perhaps give him to me, and let the infant live? 23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Would I be able to bring him back anymore? Instead, I will go to him. Yet truly, he will not return to me.”
1The just man perishes, and there is no one who acknowledges it in his heart; and men of mercy are taken away, for there is no one who understands. For the just man has been taken away before the face of malice.
43And Jesus said to him, “Amen I say to you, this day you shall be with me in Paradise.”