1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷ then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.^{[a] 18} Therefore comfort one another with these words.