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Want to know what the Bible says about Soul Sleep? Here are 18 Bible verses about Soul Sleep from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 115:17 NIV
It is not the dead who praise the Lord,
    those who go down to the place of silence;
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John 5:28-29 NIV
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
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Daniel 12:2 NIV
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Psalm 146:4 NIV
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7 NIV
and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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John 3:13 NIV
No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven —the Son of Man.
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Matthew 27:52 NIV
and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.
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Psalm 6:5 NIV
Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?
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2 Corinthians 5:6-8 NIV
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
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Matthew 10:28 NIV
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-23 NIV
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
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Genesis 2:7 NIV
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5 NIV
For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
    and even their name is forgotten.
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James 2:26 NIV
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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Ecclesiastes 3:20 NIV
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
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Hebrews 9:27 NIV
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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John 6:44 NIV
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
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Matthew 9:24 NIV
he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.
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