1 Thessalonians 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep [in death], that you may not grieve [for them] as the rest do who have no hope [beyond the grave].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

Common English Bible

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about people who have died so that you won’t mourn like others who don’t have any hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are sleeping, so as not to be sorrowful, like these others who do not have hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 Cross References

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.

1 Thessalonians 4:15

For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”

1 Corinthians 15:6

Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

Acts 7:60

Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

2 Corinthians 1:8

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.

1 Corinthians 10:1

I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Romans 1:13

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,

John 11:24

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

2 Peter 3:8

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, that my son Solomon and I will be counted offenders.”

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

Matthew 27:52

The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

1 Corinthians 12:1

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as he went he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father bewailed him.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,

Leviticus 21:2

except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;