1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive ^[a]and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a ^[b]shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Then we who are alive ^[c]and remain will 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.