14 [a]For if we believe that Jesus is dead, and is risen, even so them which sleep in [b]Jesus, will God [c]bring with him.

15 [d]For this say we unto you by the [e]word of the Lord, that [f]we which live, and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which sleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a [g]shout, and with the voice of the Archangel, and (A)with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 A reason of the confirmation, for seeing that the head is risen, the members also shall rise, and that by the virtue of God.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 They die in Christ, which continue in faith, whereby they are grafted into Christ, even to the last gasp.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Will call their bodies out of their graves, and join their souls to them again.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 The manner of the resurrection shall be thus: The bodies of the dead shall be as it were raised out of sleep, at the sound of the trumpet of God, Christ himself shall descend from heaven. The Saints (for he speaketh properly of them) which shall then be found alive together with the dead which shall rise, shall be taken up into the clouds to meet the Lord, and shall be in perpetual glory with him.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 In the Name of the Lord, as though he himself speaks unto you.
  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 He speaketh of these things, as though he should be one of them whom the Lord shall find alive at his coming, because that time is uncertain, and therefore every one of us ought to be in such a readiness, as if the Lord were coming at every moment.
  7. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 The word which the Apostle useth here, signifieth properly that encouragement which mariners use one to another, when they altogether with one shout put forth their oars and row together.

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