Bible Thesaurus: Death: Called Sleep

◄ Death: Called Sleep ►

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Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
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Job 7:21
And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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Job 14:12
So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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Jeremiah 51:39
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, said the LORD.
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Daniel 12:2
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.
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John 11:11
These things said he: and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
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Acts 7:60
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.
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Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
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1 Corinthians 15:6,18,51
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brothers at once; of whom the greater part remain to this present, but some are fallen asleep.
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1 Thessalonians 4:14,15
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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Consolations against the Fear of Death.
... is sin and the punishment of it, is taken away by Christ (1 Corinthians 15:54.)
Hence death is called, in respect of our bodies, a sleep and rest (1 Thess. ...
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Chrysostom -- Excessive Grief at the Death of Friends
... sleep." Here, too, he did not say"Them that are dead; but a third time, bringing
the subject to their remembrance, for the third time called death a sleep. ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/chrysostom excessive grief at.htm

The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved
... yet another year, in the hope that he may yet wake from the long sleep of his ... lie
for ever in the death of everlasting torment"if it may be called a death. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the peculiar sleep of the.htm

The Reward of the Righteous
... of his design, "they laughed him to scorn." "The maid," said he, "is not dead, but
sleepeth." "This is rather to be called sleep than death; seeing her life is ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 99 the reward of.htm

The Death of the Master and the Death of the Servant
... vision, and from the language of the following supplication, 'called upon Jesus ... scarcely
ever speaks of a Christian's death as death but as sleep, and with ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the death of the master.htm

A Believer's Privilege at Death
... in Christ, till they are awakened out of their sleep by the ... Peter 5:5. I have read
of a river called the Day ... daytime of life, but at the night of death they are ...
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The Raising of the Young Man of Nain - the Meeting of Life and ...
... seemed to him, as if he woke from long sleep. ... with intense suffering and the bereavement
of death, was there ... If mother and son had not called upon Him before ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xx the raising of.htm

Called Back.
... not; she is not dead, but sleepeth." Jesus loved to call death a "sleep," for He
knew that we never die. Then He took the little maid by the hand and called her ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxii called back.htm

In Danger of Death
... They called in the best physicians of the city, they spared no ... Yet he felt that death
was coming near ... sat by his bed, snatching only a few hours' sleep now and ...
/.../chapter viii in danger of.htm

Preached on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Mr. John Fletcher ...
... not in particular; only I always see death so inexpressibly ... he had no bad head-ache,
much sleep, without the ... the house, he ordered her to be called up, though ...
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