Explaining Death To Children

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

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

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

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

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,