for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
For this we say unto you [and Paul says this is] by the word of the Lord [this is a revelation from the Lord to us], that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep ( 1 Thessalonians 4:15 ).