1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in the Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.

2 For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For you know what promises we gave unto you through our Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

4 for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

5 not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

6 not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

Therefore the one rejecting (sanctification), does not reject man, but God, who indeed gives to you his Holy Spirit.

9 But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;

10 For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

for you indeed are doing the same thing unto all the brethren in all Macedonia. And we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more and more;

11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

12 so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.

13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep; in order that you may not sorrow, even as those having no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

For we speak this to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, can not anticipate those who are asleep,

16 Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

then we who are alive, who are left, will at the same time along with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord.

18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

So comfort one another with these words.