1 Thessalonians 4:14

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, ¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him, ¹⁵ for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those 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 who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

Matthew 24:31

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

2 Corinthians 4:13-14

And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, 'I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;

1 Thessalonians 4:13

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'

Genesis 49:19

Gad! a troop assaulteth him, But he assaulteth last.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

Zechariah 14:15

And so is the plague of the horse, of the mule, Of the camel, and of the ass, And of all the cattle that are in these camps, As this plague.

Romans 8:11

and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12-23

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

Philippians 3:20-21

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --

1 Thessalonians 3:13

to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

2 Thessalonians 2:1

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

Jude 1:14-15

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, 'Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,