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

neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,