1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.

Murdock⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him. ¹⁵ And this we say to you, by the word of our Lord, that we who may survive and be alive, at the coming of our Lord, shall not precede them who have slept. ¹⁶ Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise; ¹⁷ and then, we who survive and are alive shall be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with our Lord. ¹⁸ Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.