Bible Verses About Rapture
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for rapture, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,674 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Rapture
1 Thessalonians 4:17290 votes
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Matthew 24:29-31220 votes
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Revelation 1:7194 votes
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
1 Thessalonians 4:16175 votes
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18168 votes
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Revelation 3:10166 votes
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
1 Corinthians 15:52130 votes
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18128 votes
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Titus 2:13121 votes
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Matthew 24:36101 votes
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Hebrews 9:2899 votes
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Luke 21:34-3698 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
John 14:390 votes
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Matthew 24:4289 votes
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew 24:2775 votes
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:3172 votes
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1 Thessalonians 5:967 votes
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:262 votes
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
John 14:1-355 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
1 Corinthians 15:51-5753 votes
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Revelation 22:1251 votes
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Matthew 24:1-5150 votes
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mark 13:3250 votes
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Revelation 20:450 votes
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
2 Peter 3:1049 votes
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
What does the Bible say about rapture?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:17 on the subject of rapture. Across 4,674 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 1:7, 1 Thessalonians 4:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.