- For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;
that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,
not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God. - For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.
- For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken. You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. SelahNext verse!With image