1 Thessalonians 4:14 {13}
Good News Translation
We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.

New Revised Standard Version
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.

Contemporary English Version
We believe Jesus died and was raised to life. We also believe that when God brings Jesus back again, he will bring with him all who had faith in Jesus before they died.

New American Bible
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

if we.

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12-23 Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? . . .

2 Corinthians 4:13,14 But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak also: . . .

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

sleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15:18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

God.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

Genesis 49:19 Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

Zechariah 14:15 And the destruction of the horse, and of the mule, and of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts, that shall be in those tents, shall be like this destruction.

Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

1 Corinthians 15:23 But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

Philippians 3:20,21 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:1 And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering together unto him:

Jude 1:14,15 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: . . .

Context
The Return of the Lord
13And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.…
Cross References
Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.

1 Corinthians 15:18
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

2 Corinthians 4:14
Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
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