Death will be no more

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 1 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 2

The Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 3 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 4

Death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore. 5 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces. 6

And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. 7

 

1 1Th 4.13-14 2 1Cor 15.51-52 3 Phil 3.20-21 4 1Cor 15.53-57 5 Rev 21.4 6 Is 25.8 7 1Th 4.17-18