Bible verse for November 2

¹⁰ In fact, you are already doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the whole of Macedonia. Yet we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to excel in it still more, ¹¹ and to aim at living quietly, attending to your own business and working with your own hands, as we directed you, ¹² so that outsiders will see you living decently and you will lack nothing. ¹³ But, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not be sorrowful like the rest, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, then in the same way God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. ¹⁵ For we say this to you on the Lord’s word: we who are living and remain until the Lord’s coming will certainly not go before those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with an archangel’s voice and God’s trumpet, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are living and remain will be snatched up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In this way we will be with the Lord always.

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