and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.

nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

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

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.