1 Thessalonians 4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Thessalonians 4A Life Pleasing to God

1 in holiness and honor,

5not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God;

6 so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

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15For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died.

16Mt 24.31; 1 Cor 15.23; 2 Thess 2.1For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

171 Cor 15.52Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever.

18Therefore encourage one another with these words.