1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Coming of the Lord

¹³But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.^[a] ¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.^[b]

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Notas al pie

4.13 Paul tells them that those who died before Christ’s second Coming are no worse off than those who will still be alive at his coming.
4.17 i.e., we who are alive shall go out to meet him and accompany him back on his return to this earth.

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