For now we are alive again,<n id="1" /> if you stand firm in the Lord.

He died<n id="1" /> for us so that whether we are alert or asleep<n id="2" /> we will come to life together with him.

Then we who are alive, who are left,<n id="1" /> will be suddenly caught up<n id="2" /> together<n id="3" /> with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

For people everywhere<n id="1" /> report how you welcomed us<n id="2" /> and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord,<n id="1" /> that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.