10. For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,
11. and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
12. that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
13. But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.
14. For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
15. (For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;
16. for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
17. then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord.
18. So encourage one another with these words.)