'Sleeping' in the Bible

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.