1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

We neither want you to be ignorant concerning those who have died, nor to grieve like those who have no hope. We believe that JESUS died and rose again, and we believe that GOD will bring with JESUS those who have died in him. For we tell you this directly from the LORD: that we who remain and are living at the coming of the LORD, will not meet him ahead of those who have died. For the LORD himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet call of GOD, and the dead in CHRIST will rise first. Then we who remain and are living will together with them be caught up in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. From then on we will always be with the LORD. With these words, therefore, encourage one another.