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 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• 1 Th 4:15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
• 1 Th 5:10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
• 2 Pet 3:4“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
• 1 Cor 15:18–19Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
• Acts 7:60Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
• 1 Cor 15:6After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
• Eph 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• John 11:11–13After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
• Ezek 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
• Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
• Job 19:25–27But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
• 1 Cor 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
• Matt 27:52The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
• John 11:24Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
• 1 Kgs 1:21Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
• 2 Cor 1:8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
• 1 Kgs 2:10Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Rom 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
• Lev 19:28You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
• 2 Pet 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
• Acts 8:2God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
• Ezek 24:16–18“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
• Luke 8:52–53Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”
• 1 Cor 12:1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
• 2 Sam 12:19–20When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
• Deut 14:1–2You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
• Gen 37:35All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
• 2 Sam 18:33The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
• Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

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