Passage · New Testament
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
1Thess.4.13-1Thess.4.18
Explore this passage in the graph13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For 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. 17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18Therefore encourage one another with these words. Read this passage at the publisher: Read in NIV · Read in ESV
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The promise of His return parallels 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidencePaul's teaching on the coming of the Lord is one of the primary passages behind the promise.
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