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

but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.

But concerning those who have fallen asleep, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that you may not grieve, as others who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also should we believe that God will, through Jesus, bring with him those who sleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are asleep

then we, the living who remain, shall, together with them, be caught up in clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him.

Now we beseech you, brethren, to have regard for those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you,