Death of Saints, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 1 Corinthians 15:18 NT

  Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14 NT

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

• Revelation 14:13 NT

  I heard a 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.”

• Philippians 1:21 NT

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

• Hebrews 11:13 NT

  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

• Isaiah 57:2 OT

  He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

• Proverbs 14:32 OT

  The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

• Luke 2:29 NT

  “Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

• Job 14:14 OT

  If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

• Genesis 50:24 OT

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

• Joshua 23:14 OT

  “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing…

• 1 Kings 2:2 OT

  “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

• 1 Corinthians 15:55 NT

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

• Psalms 116:15 OT

  Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

• Psalms 48:14 OT

  For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

• Psalms 23:4 OT

  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

• 2 Kings 22:20 OT

  ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

• Isaiah 57:1 OT

  The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

• Job 3:17 OT

  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:7 NT

  and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

• Luke 16:25 NT

  “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

• 2 Corinthians 5:8 NT

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

• Philippians 1:23 NT

  But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

• 2 Timothy 4:8 NT

  From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.