Verse 13

But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Referenced Verses

  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep." 12 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
  • Acts 7:60 : 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
  • 1 Cor 15:6 : 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
  • 1 Cor 15:18-19 : 18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
  • Lev 19:28 : 28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
  • Deut 14:1-2 : 1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
  • 2 Sam 12:19-20 : 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead." 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
  • 1 Kgs 1:21 : 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • Job 19:25-27 : 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, 27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. 17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
  • John 11:24 : 24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
  • 1 Thess 4:15 : 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • Luke 8:52-53 : 52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping." 53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
  • Matt 27:52 : 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
  • 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!"