"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" - 2 Corinthians 5:17

… "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead," - John 11:11-14 (NIV)

The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.Proverbs 13:4 (NIV)

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.-Psalm 73:26 (NIV)

Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. — Hebrews 6:16-20 (NIV)

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Psalm 150:6 (NIV)

A man told Jesus that he wanted to tend to his father's funeral arrangements (Luke 9:59). Like many, this would involve burying your father (of course), comforting family and friends, executing a will, paying burial fees and taxes, securing his father's home and belongings, and much more. I'm sure the man felt a sense of entitlement, having possibly the all-time best excuse in the world when he told Jesus "I'm sure you'll understand when I tell you that I need to go bury my father first." Yet, Jesus said to the man "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:60; Luke 9:57-62 for context).

...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians 1:6 (NIV)

5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! - Philippians 2:5-8 (NIV)

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:14 (NIV)