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

The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover."

'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen dwelling; I will rebuild its ruins and set it up again,

So take a look at the goodness and the severity of God; severity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, on condition that you continue to live by His goodness; otherwise, you too will be pruned away.

Christ certainly did not please Himself; instead, as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me."

After that, at one time He was seen by more than five hundred brothers, most of whom are still living, though some of them have fallen asleep.

Yes, even those who have fallen asleep, though in union with Christ, have perished.

But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then through Jesus, God will bring back with Him those who have fallen asleep.

For on the Lord's own authority we say that those of us who may be left behind and are still living when the Lord comes back, will have no advantage at all over those who have fallen asleep.

and then have fallen by the wayside -- it is impossible, I say, to keep on restoring them to their first repentance, since they continue to crucify the Son of God to their detriment and hold Him up to contempt.

So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will surely come and move your lampstand from its place -- if you do not repent.

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky upon the earth. To this angel the key to the pit of the abyss was given,

Then a second angel followed, saying: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen, who made all the nations drink the wine of vengeance due her immorality!"

There are also seven kings; five have fallen, one is on the throne, the other has not yet come, and when he does he must stay but a little while,

He shouted with a mighty voice: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen! She has become a den for demons, a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,

because all the nations have fallen by drinking the raging wine of her immorality; the kings of the earth have joined her in her immorality, and the businessmen of the earth have grown rich from the wealth of her luxury."