Bible Verses About Hades: The Realm (State) of the Dead

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.

How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.