1 Thessalonians 4:13

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹² so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing. ¹³ Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him.

Fallen Asleep

Those Who Have Fallen Asleep

No

Ephesians 2:12

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

Leviticus 19:28

And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I [am] Yahweh.

Daniel 12:2

And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.

Acts 7:60

And falling to [his] knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" And [after he] said this, he fell asleep.

Romans 1:13

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.

Deuteronomy 14:1-2

"You [are] children of Yahweh your God; [therefore] you must not gash yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald} for [the] dead.

2 Samuel 12:19-20

When David saw that his servants [were] whispering together, he realized that the child [was] dead. Then David said to his servants, "[Is] the child dead?" And they said, "He [is] dead."

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only} I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son."

1 Kings 1:21

It shall be that when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be [considered as] sinners."

1 Kings 2:10

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

Job 1:21

Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

Job 19:25-27

But I myself know [that] my redeemer [is] alive, and [at the] last he will stand up upon {the earth}.

Proverbs 14:32

By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

Ezekiel 24:16-18

"Son of man, look! I [am] taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down.

Ezekiel 37:11

And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'

Matthew 27:52

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

Luke 8:52-53

And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping."

John 11:11-13

He said these [things], and after this he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him."

John 11:24

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

Acts 8:2

And devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

Acts 13:36

For David, [after] serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with} his fathers, and experienced decay.

1 Corinthians 10:1

For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea,

1 Corinthians 12:1

Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

1 Corinthians 15:6

then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:18-19

And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

2 Corinthians 1:8

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the [province of] Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond [our] strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

1 Thessalonians 4:15

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

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For {ever since} the fathers fell asleep, all [things] have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation."

2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your [notice], that one day with the Lord [is] like a thousand years, and a thousand years [is] like one day.