13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you2f sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Yeshua [God is Salvation] died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yeshua [God is Salvation] will God-The Father bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord - Kurios, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord - Kurios shall not precede them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord - Kurios himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God-The Father: and the dead in Moshiach [Messiah] shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord - Kurios in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord - Kurios.
18 For what reason comfort one another with these words.