Our Deceased Loved Ones

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

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

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

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

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. — read the full passage →

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; — read the full passage →

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — read the full passage →

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.