Bible Verses About The Rapture
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the rapture, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 33,488 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 The Rapture
1 Thessalonians 4:171,026 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.
Revelation 3:10843 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 Thessalonians 4:16756 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:
Matthew 24:1-51652 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.
Revelation 1:7575 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 Corinthians 15:52565 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 5:2520 votes
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17507 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 5:9491 votes
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:13484 votes
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Matthew 24:42434 votes
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mark 13:32433 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.
Matthew 24:27422 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-18409 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Philippians 3:20-21390 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
John 14:3389 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 24:29-31388 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:
Matthew 24:36381 votes
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Luke 17:34-37378 votes
I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18374 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 4:13-18369 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.
John 14:1-3367 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Matthew 24:30-31348 votes
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53327 votes
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Acts 1:9-11324 votes
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
What does the Bible say about the rapture?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:17 on the subject of the rapture. Across 33,488 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 3:10, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, Matthew 24:1-51. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.