1 Thessalonians 4:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

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  • 1 Cor 15:51-53 : 51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed– 52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?
  • 1 Kgs 20:35 : 35 A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions One of the members of the prophetic guild, told his companion a message from the LORD,“Please wound me!” But the man refused to wound him.
  • Ps 88:13 : 13 As for me, I cry out to you, O LORD; in the morning my prayer confronts you.
  • Ps 119:147-148 : 147 I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word. 148 My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.
  • Matt 17:25 : 25 He said,“Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,“What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes– from their sons or from foreigners?”
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 But Micaiah said,“As certainly as the LORD lives, I will say what the LORD tells me to say.”
  • Job 41:11 : 11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 Just then a prophet arrived from Judah with the LORD’s message for Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
  • 1 Kgs 13:9 : 9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
  • 1 Kgs 13:17-18 : 17 For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’” 18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.
  • 1 Kgs 13:22 : 22 You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”

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    16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

    17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

    18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    13The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

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    9For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

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    51Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–

    52in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

    53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

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    18Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

    19For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

    20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

  • 2 Thess 2:1-2
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    2not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

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    6So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

    7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

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    14We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

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  • 1 Thess 2:19
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