1 Thessalonians 4:13

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹² that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing. ¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, ¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

Fallen Asleep

Those Who Have Fallen Asleep

No

Ephesians 2:12

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

Leviticus 19:28

And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I am Jehovah.

Daniel 12:2

And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.

Acts 7:60

and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

Romans 1:13

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

Genesis 37:35

and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, 'For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

Deuteronomy 14:1-2

Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

2 Samuel 12:19-20

And David seeth that his servants are whispering, and David understandeth that the lad is dead, and David saith unto his servants, 'Is the lad dead?' and they say, 'Dead.'

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, 'My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

1 Kings 1:21

and it hath been, when my lord the king lieth with his fathers, that I have been, I and my son Solomon -- reckoned sinners.'

1 Kings 2:10

And David lieth down with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David,

Job 1:21

and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Job 19:25-27

That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

Proverbs 14:32

In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

Ezekiel 24:16-18

'Son of man, lo, I am taking from thee the desire of thine eyes by a stroke, and thou dost not mourn, nor weep, nor let thy tear come.

Ezekiel 37:11

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.

Matthew 27:52

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

Luke 8:52-53

and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, 'Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;

John 11:11-13

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

John 11:24

Martha saith to him, 'I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

Acts 8:2

and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;

Acts 13:36

for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

1 Corinthians 10:1

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

1 Corinthians 12:1

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

1 Corinthians 15:6

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

1 Corinthians 15:18-19

then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

2 Corinthians 1:8

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

1 Thessalonians 4:15

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, 'Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

2 Peter 3:8

And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;