Soul Sleep
8 passages
- Psalm 115:17
It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
Read it in context - Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Read it in context - John 5:28–29
28Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice 29and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Read it in context - Psalm 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Read it in context - John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Read it in context - Psalm 6:5
For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
Read it in context - Matthew 27:52
The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
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