³ If I go and prepare a place for you, ^(A)I will come again and receive you to Myself, that ^(B)where I am, there you may be also.

¹⁶ For the Lord ^(A)Himself ^(B)will descend from heaven with a ^[a](C)shout, with the voice of ^(D)the archangel and with the ^(E)trumpet of God, and ^(F)the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Then ^(G)we who are alive ^[b]and remain will be ^(H)caught up together with them ^(I)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always ^(J)be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.

⁹ For God has not destined us for ^(A)wrath, but for ^(B)obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ Because you have ^(A)kept the word of ^(B)My ^[a]perseverance, ^(C)I also will keep you from the hour of ^[b](D)testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole ^[c](E)world, to ^[d]test ^(F)those who dwell on the earth.