1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹³ I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him. ¹⁵ And this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which live and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not come before they which sleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first: ¹⁷ then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Where-fore comfort yourselves one another with these words.