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1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
15For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not 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 sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17Then we who are alive, who are left, 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.
1Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
2For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
3While people are saying, “There is 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 are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
5For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
6So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are 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 might live with him.
11Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.