1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

Sawyer⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, ¹⁷ then we the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord. ¹⁸ Comfort one another, therefore, with these words.