004:012 so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not
be a burden to any one.
004:013 Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away,
we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you
should mourn as others do who have no hope.
004:014 For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again,
we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him
those who shall have passed away.
004:015 For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority--
that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming
of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall
have previously passed away.
004:016 For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word
of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first.
004:017 Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught
up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
004:018 And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage
one another with these words.
005:001 But as to times and dates it is unnecessary that anything
be written to you.
005:002 For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord
comes like a thief in the night.
005:003 While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment
destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman
who is with child; and escape there is none.
005:004 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that daylight should
surprise you like a thief;
005:005 for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day.
We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.