John 14:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 [a]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 4:17
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17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together[a] with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord.
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- 4:17 Will be caught up together: literally, snatched up, carried off; cf. 2 Cor 12:2; Rev 12:5. From the Latin verb here used, rapiemur, has come the idea of “the rapture,” when believers will be transported away from the woes of the world; this construction combines this verse with Mt 24:40–41 (see note there) // Lk 17:34–35 and passages from Revelation in a scheme of millennial dispensationalism.
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