Song of Solomon 5:2

The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

She

2 I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is aknocking.
Open to me, my bsister, my clove,
my ddove, my eperfect one,
for my head is wet with dew,
my flocks with the drops of the night.”

Romans 13:11

11Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you gto wake from sleep. hFor salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

The Coming of the Lord

13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, ithat you may not grieve as others do jwho have no hope. 14For ksince we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him lthose who have fallen asleep.

Revelation of John 14:13

13And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: mBlessed are the dead nwho die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, othat they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

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