Isaiah 57:2

The upright who die enter into peace and rest in their beds. It matters because it gives assurance of peaceful rest for the righteous in death.

Cross-references · 16

• Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
• Luke 2:29Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• 2 Cor 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• Luke 7:50And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
• 2 Chr 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
• Matt 25:21His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
• Ezek 32:25They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
• Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
• Phil 1:23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
• Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Isa 14:18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

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