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concerning them who are asleep, that you
sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

For if we believe Jesus died and rose again,
even so, those who sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him. For this, we say unto you by the word

of the Lord that we who are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
those who are asleep (have died). For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first: then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall

we ever be with the Lord. So comfort one
another with these words.

9 Behold, what manner of love the Father has
given unto us, that we should be called the sons
of God: therefore the world knows us not,
because it knew him not. Beloved, now we are
the sons of God, and it does not yet appear

what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is.