1 Thessalonians 4:15-5:11
15For this we say to you aby the word of the Lord, that bwe who are alive 1and remain until cthe coming of the Lord, will not precede dthose who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord aHimself bwill descend from heaven with a 1,cshout, with the voice of dthe archangel and with the etrumpet of God, and fthe dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then awe who are alive 1and remain will be bcaught up together with them cin the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always dbe with the Lord. 18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
The Day of the Lord
5Now concerning the atimes and the seasons, brothers, you bhave no need of anything to be written to you. 2For you yourselves know full well that athe day of the Lord 1will come bjust like a thief in the night. 3While they are saying, “aPeace and safety!” then 1,bdestruction 2will come upon them suddenly like clabor pains upon a woman who is pregnant, and they will never escape. 4But you, brothers, are not in adarkness, that the day would overtake you 1,blike a thief, 5for you are all asons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of bdarkness; 6so then let us not asleep as 1,bothers do, but let us be awake and 2,csober. 7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get adrunk at night. 8But since awe are of the day, let us bbe 1sober, having put on the cbreastplate of dfaith and love, and as a ehelmet, the fhope of salvation. 9For God has not appointed us for awrath, but for bobtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10awho died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 11Therefore, 1comfort one another and abuild up one another, just as you also are doing.