17 Bible Verses about Death Of God's People
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We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.
Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep.
The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;
More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all.
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"
As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.
I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.
For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,
Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
Why, a man will hardly die for the just ??though one might bring oneself to die, if need be, for a good man.
(he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me."
since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
