Revelation 14:13

The Messages of the Three Angels

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: _d Blessed are the dead _e who die in the Lord from now on." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, _f "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!"

1. Cross References
   Revelation 20:6
   Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
   Ecclesiastes 4:2
   And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:18
   Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
   1 Thessalonians 4:16
   For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
   
3. Cross References
   Revelation 6:11
   Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.