1 Thessalonians 4:15

American Standard Version (1901)

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

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  • 1 Cor 15:51-53 : 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 1 Kgs 20:35 : 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
  • Ps 88:13 : 13 But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
  • Ps 119:147-148 : 147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words. 148 Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
  • Matt 17:25 : 25 He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers?
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 And Micaiah said, As Jehovah liveth, what Jehovah saith unto me, that will I speak.
  • Job 41:11 : 11 Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Jehovah unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
  • 1 Kgs 13:9 : 9 for so was it charged me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that thou camest.
  • 1 Kgs 13:17-18 : 17 for it was said to me by the word of Jehovah, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 18 And he said unto him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
  • 1 Kgs 13:22 : 22 but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

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  • 1 Thess 4:16-18
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    16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

    17then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

  • 1 Thess 5:9-10
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    9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 1 Cor 15:51-53
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    51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,

    52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

  • 1 Cor 15:18-20
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    18Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

    20But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

  • 2 Thess 2:1-2
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    1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

    2to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
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    6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

  • 1 Cor 15:22-23
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    22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

    23But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming.

  • 2 Cor 5:8
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    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
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    2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

  • Mark 13:36
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    36lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Rom 14:8-9
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    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

    9For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • 1 Cor 15:15-16
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    15Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

    16For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

  • John 5:28
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    28Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,

  • 1 Cor 1:7
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    7so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • John 5:25
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    25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

  • 1 Pet 4:5
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    5who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

  • 2 Cor 4:11-12
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    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • 1 Cor 15:12
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    12Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • Eph 5:14
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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

  • Jas 4:15
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    15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

  • Rev 20:5
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    5The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.

  • 2 Tim 4:1
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    1I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

  • Rev 14:13
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    13And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

  • Matt 24:42
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    42Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

  • 2 Cor 5:6
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    6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

  • Job 14:12
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    12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
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    30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

  • Matt 16:28
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    28Verily I say unto you, there are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

  • 1 Thess 2:19
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    19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

  • Rom 13:11
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    11And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:4
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    4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.