Soul Sleep

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; — read the full passage →

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became, — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

he saith to them, `Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,' and they were deriding him;

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -- — read the full passage →

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; — read the full passage →

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons? — read the full passage →

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — read the full passage →

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized? — read the full passage →

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

And it came to pass, after these words, as it were eight days, that having taken Peter, and John, and James, he went up to the mountain to pray, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having again cried with a great voice, yielded the spirit; — read the full passage →

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

Because of this, among you many <FI>are<Fi> weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

which in His own times He shall shew--the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords, — read the full passage →

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

and having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

`And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

And lo, I come quickly, and my reward <FI>is<Fi> with me, to render to each as his work shall be;

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

`Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here! — read the full passage →

but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

`And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day;

`Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed; — read the full passage →