1 Thessalonians 4:13

Paul does not want them ignorant about believers who have died, so they will not grieve hopelessly. Christians mourn differently because they have hope.

Cross-references · 31

• Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• 1 Th 4:15For 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 Th 5:10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
• 2 Pet 3:4and 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.”
• 1 Cor 15:18–19Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
• Acts 7:60He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
• 1 Cor 15:6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
• Eph 2:12that 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.
• John 11:11–13He 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.”
• Ezek 37:11Then 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.
• Acts 13:36For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
• Job 19:25–27But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
• 1 Cor 10:1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
• Matt 27:52The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
• John 11:24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
• 1 Kgs 1:21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
• 2 Cor 1:8For 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.
• 1 Kgs 2:10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Rom 1:13Now 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.
• Lev 19:28“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
• 2 Pet 3:8But 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.
• Acts 8:2Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
• Ezek 24:16–18Son 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.
• Luke 8:52–53All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
• 1 Cor 12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
• 2 Sam 12:19–20But 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.”
• Deut 14:1–2You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
• Gen 37:35All 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.
• 2 Sam 18:33The 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!”
• Job 1:21He 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 Yahweh’s name.”

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