1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.

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

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

3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God:

6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his holy Spirit.

9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

10 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;

And indeed ye do it towards all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

That ye may walk honestly towards them that are without, and [that] ye may have need of nothing.

13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain to the coming of the Lord shall not precede them who are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

Then we who 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.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.