1 Thessalonians 4

15 For we say this to you by a word from the Lord:  * 4:15 2Pt 1:21; Rv 11:8 We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming  * 4:15 1Jn 2:28 will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.  * 4:15 1Co 15:5116 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,  * 4:16 Or command,* 4:16 Jn 5:25 with the archangel’s  * 4:16 Jd 9 voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ  * 4:16 Rm 16:7; 1Co 15:18; 1Pt 5:14; Rv 14:13; 20:5 will rise first. 17 Then  * 4:17 1Co 15:23,51–52 we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds  * 4:17 Mt 26:64 to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage  * 4:18 Or comfort one another with these words.