Bible Verses about “soul sleep”
The Bible contains 20 verses about soul sleep across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.”
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,”
“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
“But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.”
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.”
“Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
“For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.”
“No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.”
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.”
“Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,”
“Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,”
“and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.”
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
“The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;”
“"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"”
“But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."”
“His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.”
“For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?”