For those who follow godly paths will rest in peace when they die.
Parallel translations
- WEB He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
- KJV He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
- BSB Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- NKJV He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
- NASB He enters into peace; They rest in their beds, Each one who walked in his upright way.
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Quick answer
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.
Overview
Building on the previous verse, the death of the righteous is portrayed not as loss but as entering peace and rest. Their uprightness leads to a restful end, in contrast to the turmoil awaiting the wicked. This anticipates the fuller New Testament hope that to die in the Lord is to rest from one's labors and be with Christ (Rev. 14:13).
Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
- 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
- Luke 2:29“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;
- Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
- Luke 7:50He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
- 2 Chr 16:14They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
- Matt 25:21“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Ezek 32:25They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put among those who are slain.
- Luke 16:22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
- Phil 1:23But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Isa 14:18All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
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