1 Thessalonians 4
1 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still 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 charges 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, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God, )
not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully 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 has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also 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 Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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 also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still 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 seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged 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 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.
13 But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest 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 has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
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, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen 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 for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall 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, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always 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 So encourage one another with these words.)
So comfort one another with these words.
