1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵ What we tell you now is the Lord’s own message. We who are living now may still be living when the Lord comes again. We who are living at that time will be with the Lord, but not before those who have already died. ¹⁶ The Lord himself will come down from heaven. There will be a loud command with the voice of the archangel^[a] and with the trumpet call of God. And those who have died and were in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, those who are still alive at that time will be gathered up with them. We will be taken up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And we will be with the Lord forever.