1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.
Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Leviticus 19:28
And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah.
Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.
Acts 7:60
And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.
Romans 1:13
But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2
Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.
2 Samuel 12:19-20
But David saw that his servants whispered, and David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said thus: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died in thy stead, O Absalom, my son, my son!
1 Kings 1:21
Otherwise it shall come to pass when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.
1 Kings 2:10
And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Job 1:21
and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
Job 19:25-27
And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death.
Ezekiel 24:16-18
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet thou shalt not mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel 37:11
And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off!
Matthew 27:52
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep arose,
Luke 8:52-53
And all were weeping and lamenting her. But he said, Do not weep, for she has not died, but sleeps.
John 11:11-13
These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:24
Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.
Acts 8:2
And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
Acts 13:36
For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.
1 Corinthians 10:1
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1 Corinthians 12:1
But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 15:6
Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:18-19
Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
(For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;
1 Thessalonians 5:10
who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
2 Peter 3:8
But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.