Study it in the app“For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.”
Paul comforts grieving Thessalonians: we will always be with the LordJesus Will ReturnPaul writes so that they will not grieve like those who have no hopeDeath and Eternal Life
Forγὰρthisτοῦτοwe tellλέγομενyouὑμῖνbyἐνthe wordλόγῳof the Lord,κυρίουthatὅτιweἡμεῖςwho are alive,οἱ ζῶντεςwho are leftοἱ περιλειπόμενοιuntilεἰςthe comingτὴν παρουσίανof the Lord,τοῦ κυρίουwill certainly notοὐ μὴprecedeφθάσωμενthose who have fallen asleep.τοὺς κοιμηθέντας
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “legomen” appearsmessage
What God says, proclaimed to people.
Where else “logōi” appearsLord
The Lord: God, whose name is YHWH; also Jesus.
Where else “kyriou” appearslive
To have life in the body, or receive it again after dying.
Where else “zōntes” appearsbe left, survive
Be left behind, remain; survive until a certain time.
Where else “perileipomenoi” appearscoming
The arrival of Jesus in glory at the end.
Where else “parousian” appearsprecede
Get somewhere ahead of another.
Where else “phthasōmen” appearspass away
To die, like drifting off to rest.
Where else “koimēthentas” appears“By the word of the Lord”: literally “in a word of the Lord.” It can be understood as a teaching received from the Lord.
14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so also God will bring with him, through Jesus, those who have fallen asleep.
15 · This verse (above)
16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in the Messiah will rise first;
