ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

18 Then those also who d have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

16 For n the Lord himself will descend o from heaven p with a cry of command, with the voice of q an archangel, and r with the sound of the trumpet of God. And s the dead in Christ will rise first.

13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: d Blessed are the dead e who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, f “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”