For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep, - lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope;

For, as we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring, with Jesus, those who through him have passed to their rest.

This we tell you on the authority of the Lord--that those of us who are still living at the Coming of the Lord will not anticipate those who have passed to their rest.

So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.

they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night: