riversident 1Thessalonians:4:13-5:11
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:13 @ We do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding those who are sleeping, that you may not sorrow as the rest of men who have no hope.
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:14 @ For since, as we believe, Jesus died and rose, so too God will through Jesus bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:15 @ This we tell you by the word of the Lord: We, the living, who have been left until the coming of the Lord, will not have the start of those who have fallen asleep.
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:16 @ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with God's trumpet-call, and first the dead in Christ will rise.
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:17 @ Then we, the living, who are left, will be caught up along with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall forever be with the Lord.
riversident@1Thessalonians:4:18 @ So encourage one another with these words.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ BUT regarding times and dates, brethren, you do not need to have me write to you.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:3 @ When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction is upon them, like the pangs upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that the day can take you like a thief.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:5 @ You are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to night or to darkness.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:7 @ For those who sleep sleep in the night and those who drink drink in the night.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ But let us who are of the day be sober. Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:9 @ For God has not destined us to wrath, but to the winning of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ who died for us that whether we are waking or sleeping we may live in company with him.
riversident@1Thessalonians:5:11 @ Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, as indeed you are doing.
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