1 Thessalonians 4:14-16 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so should we also, that God will, by the agency of Jesus, bring with him them who are composed to rest.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so [should we] also, that God will, by the agency of Jesus, bring with him them who are composed to rest. ¹⁵ For this we tell you by a word of the Lord, that we the living who are left till the coming of the Lord shall not anticipate them who are laid to rest ¹⁶ that the Lord himself, with an authoritative command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall be raised first;