1 Thessalonians 4:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

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  • 1 Cor 15:51-53 : 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will 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 who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?
  • 1 Kgs 20:35 : 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to strike him.
  • Ps 88:13 : 13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
  • Ps 119:147-148 : 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. 148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, That I might meditate on your word.
  • Matt 17:25 : 25 He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.
  • Job 41:11 : 11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to 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 Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.
  • 1 Kgs 13:17-18 : 17 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came. 18 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him.
  • 1 Kgs 13:22 : 22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.

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    16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

    17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

    18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

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

  • 1 Thess 5:9-10
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    9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

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    51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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

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

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

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

    20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

  • 2 Thess 2:1-2
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    1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

    2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

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    4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

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    6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

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

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    14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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

    23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

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    8 We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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  • Mark 13:36
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    36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

  • Rom 14:8-9
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    8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

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

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    15 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

    16 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

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    11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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

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    12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • Eph 5:14
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    14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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    15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

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    13 I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

  • Matt 24:42
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    42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

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

  • Job 14:12
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    12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

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

  • Matt 16:28
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    28 Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."

  • 1 Thess 2:19
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    19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?

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

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

  • 2 Cor 5:4
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    4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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