4
1 Thessalonians

The Coming of the Lord: Hope for the Dead and Call to Watchfulness

1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
13We do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve as the rest who have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. 15For this we say to you by a word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive, who remain, will be 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.
Chapter 5
1Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3When they say, "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief. 5For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of night or of darkness. 6So then let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10Who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. 11Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Tap a verse