1 Thessalonians 4:14

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹³ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. ¹⁵ For this, we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are 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 he that lives and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of Hades and of death.

Matthew 24:31

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

2 Corinthians 4:13-14

We having the same Spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed and, therefore, I have spoken; we also believe and, therefore, speak;

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

Genesis 49:19

Gad, an army shall invade him, but he shall invade at the last.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out 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 were in the armies.

Romans 8:11

And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12-23

Now if the Christ is preached that rose 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, from where we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

1 Thessalonians 3:13

that your hearts may be confirmed in holiness, irreprehensible before God, even our Father, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them 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, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together unto him,

Jude 1:14-15

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints