{"id":422,"date":"2026-04-21T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:53:58","slug":"1-thessalonians-4-13-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>13 But we do not want you to be <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">uninformed<\/mark>, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">15 For this we declare to you by a <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">word<\/mark> from the Lord, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">that we who are <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">alive<\/mark>, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">fallen asleep<\/mark>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">And the <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">dead<\/mark> in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">alive<\/mark>, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">18 Therefore encourage one another with these <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">words<\/mark>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}