All his sons got up along with all his daughters to console him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” So his father kept weeping for him.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 - Tree of Life Version Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest who have no hope. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. |
All his sons got up along with all his daughters to console him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” So his father kept weeping for him.
Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered traitors.”
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Then he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave and Adonai has taken away; blessed be the Name of Adonai.”
The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say: ‘Our bones are dried up; our hope is lost; we are cut off—by ourselves.’
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.
You are not to make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai.
except for his relatives that are nearest to him—his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the kedoshim who were sleeping were raised to life.
Martha said to Him, “I know, he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.
Then he fell on his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” After he said this, he died.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I planned to come to you (though I was prevented until now)—so I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the rest of the nations.
For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.
Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time— most of them are still alive, though some have died.
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our trouble that happened in Asia. We were under great pressure—so far beyond our strength that we despaired even of living.
At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.
For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, so with Him God will also bring those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua.
For this we tell you, by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede those who are asleep.
He died for us so that, whether we may be awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
so then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain on the alert and sober-minded.
and saying, “Where is this promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers died, everything goes on just as it has from the beginning of creation.”
But don’t forget this one thing, loved ones, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.