24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Blessing and Curse
• Eternal Life

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 15:18 — Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
• 1Cor 15:18 — Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
• 1Cor 15:19 — If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
• 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1Thess 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
• 1Thess 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
• 1Thess 4:16 — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
• 1Thess 4:16 — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
• 1Thess 5:10 — Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
• 2Cor 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• 2Thess 1:6 — Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
• 2Thess 1:7 — And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
• 2Tim 4:7 — I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• Dan 12:13 — But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
• Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
• Eccl 7:1 — A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
• Gal 6:7 — Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
• Hab 2:2 — And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
• Heb 4:9 — There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
• Heb 4:10 — For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
• Heb 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Isa 35:10 — And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isa 57:1 — The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
• Isa 57:2 — He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
• Jas 1:25 — But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
• Job 3:17 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
• Job 3:17 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
• Luke 2:29 — Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
• Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
• Luke 16:9 — And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
• Luke 16:22 — And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
• Luke 16:25 — But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
• Mark 4:29 — But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
• Matt 3:17 — And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Matt 25:35 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
• Num 23:10 — Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
• Phil 1:21 — For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Phil 1:21 — For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Phil 1:23 — For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
• Phil 2:17 — Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.