1 Thessalonians 4:13 {12}
Good News Translation
Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope.

New Revised Standard Version
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, we want you to understand how it will be for those followers who have already died. Then you won't grieve over them and be like people who don't have any hope.

New American Bible
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

I would.

Romans 1:13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 10:1 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

2 Corinthians 1:8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life.

2 Peter 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

which are.

1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Thessalonians 5:10 Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Matthew 27:52 And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose,

Luke 8:52,53 And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth. . . .

John 11:11-13 These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. . . .

Acts 7:60 And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Acts 13:36 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

1 Corinthians 15:6,18 Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. . . .

2 Peter 3:4 Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

ye sorrow.

Genesis 37:35 And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:1,2 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead; . . .

2 Samuel 12:19,20 But when David saw his servants whispering, he understood that the child was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead? They answered him He is dead. . . .

2 Samuel 18:33 The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son, my son Absalom.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:16-18 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shall not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run down. . . .

John 11:24 Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.

Acts 8:2 And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great mourning over him.

which have.

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

Job 19:25-27 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. . . .

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Context
The Return of the Lord
120 13And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.…
Cross References
Acts 7:60
And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Romans 1:13
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Ephesians 2:3
In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

1 Thessalonians 4:12
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