And entering in, He *said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.”
But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
This He said, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.