What Does the Bible Say About Death And Sleeping?

John 11:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And 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 5:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

2 Samuel 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

John 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

John 5:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Job 21:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

1 Kings 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

24 Bible Verses about Death And Sleeping

John 11:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 21:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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24 Bible Verses about Death And Sleeping

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John 11:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 21:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes