1 Corinthians 11:30

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Summary

1 Corinthians 11:30

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

Many

Sleep

1 Corinthians 15:51

Acts 13:36

1 Thessalonians 4:14

General references

Proverbs 11:31

Bible References

Many

But when we are judged, Jehovah disciplines us, that we should not be destroyed (condemned) with the world. (Proverbs 3:11)

He said: If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.

Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: You did not trust me! You did not show the Israelites how holy I am! So you will not bring this congregation into the land I am giving them.

Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.

You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.

Crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said: Jehovah says, 'because you have gone against the voice of Jehovah, and have not done as Jehovah ordered you,

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, do not correct me or discipline me in your burning anger.

Before they had satisfied their desire, while their food was in their mouths,

if they violate my statutes and do not obey my commandments,

Of all the families of the earth I have chosen (known) only you. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.

You have forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as to sons: My son, do not despise (regard lightly) discipline from Jehovah and do not lose heart when he corrects you. (Proverbs 3:11, 12)

I reprove and discipline those whom I love: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Sleep

Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

After David served his own generation by doing the will of God he died and was buried with his fathers. His body decayed.

If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

General references

The righteous will be rewarded on the earth much more than the wicked and the sinner.