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1 Thessalonians 4
¹² so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.
¹³ But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
¹⁶ For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
¹⁷ Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5
¹ Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.
² For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
³ While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;