Sleep
the Holy Bible

--Deuteronomy--

And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. (31:16)

--Job--

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be]. (7:21)

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. (14:12)

--Jeremiah--

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord. (51:39)

--Daniel--

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. (12:2)

--John--

These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. (11:11)

--Acts of the Apostles--

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. (7:60)

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: (13:36)

--1 Corinthians--

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. (15:6)

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. (15:18)

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (15:51)

--1 Thessalonians--

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (4:14)

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (4:15)

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