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Fear of Death

Fear of Death

The fear of death โ€” whether your own or a loved one's โ€” can cast a shadow over daily life, stealing joy and peace. This primal anxiety touches everyone at some point. But Scripture declares that Christ has destroyed death's power and holds the keys of death and the grave. For the believer, death is not the end but a doorway into God's presence. These passages replace the fear of death with the hope of resurrection and the promise of eternal life with Christ.

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Commentary

Heaven: What Awaits Us

You were made for eternity, and your heart knows it. This life is not the end.

Commentary by Bible Navigator.

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Category
Anxiety & Fear
Passages
5 key scriptures

Key Passages

O Death Where Is Your Sting

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

Paul's triumphant declaration strips death of its terror by pointing to Christ's resurrection victory - death's sting has been permanently removed.

O55 death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Though I Walk Through the Valley of Death

Psalms 23:4

Though I Walk Through the Valley of Death offers biblical truth for the situation of fear of death. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

Y4ea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

To Be Absent from the Body

2 Corinthians 5:6-8

To Be Absent from the Body offers biblical truth for the situation of fear of death. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

T6herefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

He Who Believes Shall Never Die

John 11:25-26

He Who Believes Shall Never Die offers biblical truth for the situation of fear of death. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

J25esus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Death Is Swallowed Up in Victory

Isaiah 25:8

Death Is Swallowed Up in Victory offers biblical truth for the situation of fear of death. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

H8e will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.