12 That ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without, and that nothing be lacking unto you.

13 [a]I would not brethren, have you ignorant [b]concerning them [c]which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope.

14 [d]For if we believe that Jesus is dead, and is risen, even so them which sleep in [e]Jesus, will God [f]bring with him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 The third part of the Epistle, which is interlaced among the former exhortations (which he returneth unto afterward) wherein he speaketh of mourning for the dead, and the manner of the resurrection, and of the latter day.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 We must take heed that we do not immoderately bewail the dead, that is, as they used to do which think that they are utterly perished.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 A confirmation: for death is but a sleep of the body (for he speaketh of the faithful) until the Lord cometh.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 A reason of the confirmation, for seeing that the head is risen, the members also shall rise, and that by the virtue of God.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 They die in Christ, which continue in faith, whereby they are grafted into Christ, even to the last gasp.
  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Will call their bodies out of their graves, and join their souls to them again.

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