1 Thessalonians 4:13

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Summary

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

I would

2 Peter 3:8

Which are

Ye sorrow

Which have

1 Corinthians 15:19

General references

Leviticus 21:2

Ezekiel 44:25

Bible References

I would

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in

Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

Which are

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders.”

Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”

This He said, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”

Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he

fell asleep.

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

Ye sorrow

Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; so David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” And they said, “He is dead.”

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And thus he said as he walked, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

He said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

“Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

Martha *said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.

Which have

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’

If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

General references

except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.