1 Thessalonians 4:18

Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you.

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Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

In Context

17Then those who died in union with Christ will rise first; and afterward we who are still living will be caught up in the clouds, with them, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be for ever with the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:11Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another’s characters, as indeed you are doing.

Hebrews 10:24Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18

State of Departed Saints. ( a. d. 51.) 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,… Read the whole commentary →

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