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Ephesians 2:12
remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
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2 Peter 3 4
and saying,“ Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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Acts 7:60
Then he fell on his knees and cried out with a loud voice,“ Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he fell asleep.
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1 Thessalonians 5 10
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
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John 11:11-13
This He said, and after this He* said to them,“ Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may awaken him from sleep.”The disciples then said to Him,“ Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will come out of it.”Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep.
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1 Corinthians 15 6
After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
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Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, and was buried among his fathers and underwent decay;
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Acts 8:2
Some devout men buried Stephen, and mourned loudly for him.
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1 Kings 2 10
Then David lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.
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Job 19:25-27
Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me!
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Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down by his own wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.
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Luke 8:52-53
Now they were all weeping and mourning for her; but He said,“ Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.
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Ezekiel 37:11
Then He said to me,“ Son of man, these bones are the entire house of Israel; behold, they say,‘ Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’
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1 Thessalonians 4 15
For we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
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Deuteronomy 14:1-2
“ You are sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the dead.For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Matthew 27:52
Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
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1 Corinthians 15 18-1 Corinthians 15 19
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
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2 Peter 3 8
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
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Romans 1:13
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that often I have planned to come to you( and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also just as among the rest of the Gentiles.
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1 Kings 1 21
Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king lies down with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders.”
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John 11:24
Martha* said to Him,“ I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
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Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 1 8
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.
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1 Corinthians 10 1
For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea;
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Ezekiel 24:16-18
“ Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you what is precious to your eyes with a fatal blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.Groan silently; do no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your mustache, and do not eat the bread of other people.”So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.
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Genesis 37:35
Then all his sons and all his daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said,“ Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
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2 Samuel 12 19-2 Samuel 12 20
But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; so David said to his servants,“ Is the child dead?” And they said,“ He is dead.”So David got up from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and when he asked, they served him food, and he ate.
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1 Corinthians 12 1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be unaware.
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2 Samuel 18 33
Then the king trembled and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And this is what he said as he walked:“ My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
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Job 1:21
He said,“ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”