Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.

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

Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

For we do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

But in this let it not escape your notice, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall by no means precede those who are dead.

who died for us, in order that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

And it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son shall be offenders.

And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had passed away were raised;

Now all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, "Do not weep; she is not dead, but asleep."

And they were ridiculing Him, knowing that she had died.

These things He said, and after this He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awaken him."

However, Jesus spoke about his death, but they thought that He was speaking about resting in sleep.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And having said this, he fell asleep."

"For David indeed in his own generation, having served by the purpose of God, died, and was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;

Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the majority remain until now, but some have died.

Then also those who have died in Christ have perished.

and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue as from the beginning of creation."

[ 37:34] And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

And you shall not make cuttings in your body for a [dead] body, and you shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

And David knew that his servants were whispering, and David perceived that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

Then David rose up from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and went into the house of God, and worshipped Him; and he went into his own house, and called for bread to eat, and they set bread before him and he ate.

And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And thus he said as he went, My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! I [pray] God I had died for you, [even] I [had died] for you, Absalom, my son, my son!

and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence. You shall not lament, neither shall you weep.

And I spoke to the people in the morning, as He commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.

Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day."

And godly men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

that at that time you were apart from Christ, being estranged from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope and atheists in the world.

For I know that He is eternal who is about to deliver me,

which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones have become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.