1 Thessalonians 4:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

2 Samuel 18:33

Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

1 Kings 1:21

For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

Job 1:21

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

Daniel 12:2

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

Leviticus 19:28

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:2

But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;

Matthew 27:52

And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;

John 11:24

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

Acts 13:36

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

Acts 7:60

And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.

Acts 8:2

And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.

Romans 1:13

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you but till now I was kept from it, so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

1 Corinthians 10:1

For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;

1 Corinthians 12:1

But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

1 Corinthians 15:6

Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;

2 Corinthians 1:8

For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

Ephesians 2:12

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

1 Thessalonians 4:15

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

2 Peter 3:4

Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

2 Peter 3:8

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.