1 Thessalonians 4:14

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹³ But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

Fallen Asleep

Have Faith

In Christ

Jesus Christ

Raise the Dead

Raised to Life

Those Who Have Fallen Asleep

O God

Christ

Jesus

Revelation 1:18

and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Matthew 24:31

And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

2 Corinthians 4:13-14

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

Revelation 14:13

And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

Genesis 49:19

Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

Zechariah 14:15

And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12-23

Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Philippians 3:20-21

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

1 Thessalonians 3:13

to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:1

Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

Jude 1:14-15

And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,