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100 Bible Verses about Dying For Your Faith

John 3:16 ESV / 1,148 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 919 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 11:25-26 ESV / 919 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?”

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 811 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 743 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 / 737 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.

Romans 14:8 ESV / 734 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.

Revelation 14:13 ESV / 707 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!”

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 685 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 656 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 654 helpful votes

So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 642 helpful votes

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

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 638 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 576 helpful votes

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

Luke 23:43 ESV / 572 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 569 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. ...

Romans 8:28 ESV / 551 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 544 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 537 helpful votes

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 73:26 ESV / 521 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 501 helpful votes

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

John 14:1 ESV / 485 helpful votes

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

John 14:1-4 ESV / 470 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. And you know the way to where I am going.”

1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 466 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.

Ezekiel 18:32 ESV / 465 helpful votes

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 459 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 23:1-6 ESV / 459 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. ...

Psalm 115:17 ESV / 455 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 451 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 451 helpful votes

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

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 450 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 431 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

John 11:25 ESV / 419 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 417 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 417 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.”

John 11:26 ESV / 403 helpful votes

And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Job 14:14 ESV / 400 helpful votes

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 392 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

John 14:27 ESV / 392 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.

John 14:1-3 ESV / 392 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 ESV / 386 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.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 382 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 379 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 377 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.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 375 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 373 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 371 helpful votes

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

Luke 1:37 ESV / 367 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

John 14:3 ESV / 365 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 361 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. ...

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 359 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Corinthians 15:51-57 ESV / 358 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?” ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 350 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 324 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:17 ESV / 319 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

James 1:12 ESV / 317 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 304 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.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 295 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 292 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

2 Timothy 4:7-8 ESV / 275 helpful votes

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 269 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 256 helpful votes

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Romans 14:7-9 ESV / 249 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.

2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 243 helpful votes

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 231 helpful votes

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

John 16:33 ESV / 230 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 229 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV / 224 helpful votes

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

Mark 9:23 ESV / 222 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Romans 15:13 ESV / 217 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 209 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 208 helpful votes

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 202 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 1:3 ESV / 201 helpful votes

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 198 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Revelation 3:21 ESV / 195 helpful votes

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 195 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.

John 5:28-29 ESV / 178 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.

Philippians 1:29 ESV / 175 helpful votes

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 174 helpful votes

“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 170 helpful votes

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Romans 1:17 ESV / 169 helpful votes

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 164 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 163 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 161 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 160 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.”

James 5:14-15 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 143 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

1 Corinthians 2:5 ESV / 141 helpful votes

So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 138 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 137 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

John 7:38 ESV / 134 helpful votes

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 133 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 132 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

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