For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

for you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound still more,

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

Then we who are alive, who remain, will be snatched away at the same time together with them in the clouds for a meeting with the Lord in the air, and thus we will be together with the Lord always.

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.

And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.