1 Thessalonians 4:15

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’ ”

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.

Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’ ”

but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”

Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.