1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.
Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.
Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am LORD.
Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Acts 7:60
And having knelt down, he cried out in a great voice, Lord, place not this sin to them. And after saying this, he slept.
Romans 1:13
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2
Ye are the sons of LORD your God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 Samuel 12:19-20
But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, 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 chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
1 Kings 1:21
Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be considered 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 I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.
Job 19:25-27
But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
Proverbs 14:32
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
Ezekiel 24:16-18
Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel 37:11
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 is lost. We are clean cut off.
Matthew 27:52
and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the sanctified who have been asleep arose.
Luke 8:52-53
And all were weeping and bewailing her. But he said, Weep not. She did not die, but sleeps.
John 11:11-13
He spoke these things, and after this he says to them, Our friend Lazarus has become asleep, but I go that I may awake him.
John 11:24
Martha says to him, I know that he will rise in the resurrection at the last day.
Acts 8:2
And devout men arranged to bury Stephen, and they made great lamentation over him.
Acts 13:36
For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.
1 Corinthians 10:1
But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 15:6
Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some also slept.
1 Corinthians 15:18-19
Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you in the word of Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation.
2 Peter 3:8
But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.