1 Thessalonians 4:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

I would not, brethren, haue you ignorant concerning them which are a sleepe, that ye sorow not euen as other which haue no hope.

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  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That ye were, I say, at that time without Christ, and were alients from the common wealth of Israel, and were strangers from the couenants of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are cleane cut off.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to euerlasting life, and some to shame and perpetuall contempt.
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 These things spake he, and after, he said vnto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I goe to wake him vp. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleepe, he shalbe safe. 13 Howbeit, Iesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of the naturall sleepe.
  • Acts 7:60 : 60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loude voyce, Lorde, laye not this sinne to their charge; when he had thus spoken, he slept.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Then certaine men fearing God, caried Steuen amongs them, to be buried, and made great lamentation for him.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 Now my brethren, I would that ye should not be ignorant, how that I haue oftentimes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hitherto) that I might haue some fruite also among you, as I haue among the other Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Moreouer, brethren, I woulde not that yee shoulde bee ignorant, that all our fathers were vnder that cloude, and all passed through that sea,
  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.
  • 1 Cor 15:6 : 6 After that, he was seene of mo then fiue hudreth brethren at once: whereof many remaine vnto this present, and some also are asleepe.
  • 1 Cor 15:18-19 : 18 And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished. 19 If in this life onely wee haue hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For brethren, we woulde not haue you ignorant of our affliction, which came vnto vs in Asia, howe we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, euen of life.
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 Then all his sonnes and all his daughters rose vp to comfort him, but he woulde not be comforted, but said, Surely I will go downe into the graue vnto my sonne mourning: so his father wept for him.
  • Lev 19:28 : 28 Ye shal not cut your flesh for the dead, nor make any print of a marke vpon you: I am the Lorde,
  • Deut 14:1-2 : 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy people vnto ye Lorde thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all the people that are vpon the earth.
  • 2 Sam 12:19-20 : 19 But when Dauid sawe that his seruantes whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid sayde vnto his seruants, Is the childe dead? And they sayd, He is dead. 20 Then Dauid arose from the earth, and washed and anoynted himselfe, and changed his apparell, and came into the house of the Lorde, and worshipped, and afterward came to his owne house, and bade that they should set bread before him, and he did eate.
  • 1 Kgs 1:21 : 21 For els when my lord the King shall sleepe with his fathers, I and my sonne Salomon shalbe reputed vile.
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
  • Job 19:25-27 : 25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth. 26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh. 27 Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked shall be cast away for his malice: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
  • Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Sonne of man beholde, I take away from thee the pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourne nor weepe, neither shal thy teares runne downe. 17 Cease from sighing: make no mourning for the dead, and binde the tyre of thine head vpon thee, and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate not the bread of men. 18 So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife dyed: and I did in the morning, as I was commanded.
  • John 11:24 : 24 Martha said vnto him, I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lorde, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day.
  • 1 Thess 4:15 : 15 For this say we vnto you by the worde of the Lorde, that we which liue, and are remayning in the comming of the Lorde, shall not preuent them which sleepe.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.
  • Luke 8:52-53 : 52 And all wept, and sorowed for her: but he sayd, Weepe not: for she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53 And they laught him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.
  • Matt 27:52 : 52 And the graues did open themselues, and many bodies of the Saintes, which slept, arose,
  • Job 1:21 : 21 And sayd, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: blessed be the Name of the Lord.
  • 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the King was mooued, and went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my sonne Absalom, my sonne, my sonne Absalom: woulde God I had dyed for thee, O Absalom, my sonne, my sonne.

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