Mark 5:39

When He had gone in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.”

Acts 20:10

But Paul went down and threw himself on him and embraced him, and said [to those standing around him], “Do not be troubled, because he is alive.”

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake (resurrect), these to everlasting life, but some to disgrace and everlasting contempt (abhorrence).

John 11:11-13

He said this, and after that said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him.”

1 Corinthians 11:30

That [careless and unworthy participation] is the reason why many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep [in death].

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, believers, about those who are asleep [in death], so that you will not grieve [for them] as the others do who have no hope [beyond this present life].

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died [willingly] for us, so that whether we are awake (alive) or asleep (dead) [at Christ’s appearing], we will live together with Him [sharing eternal life].

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