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, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.

2 For ye know what charges 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, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God, )

not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not 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 no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.

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

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us 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.

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

10 For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to 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 make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;

12 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

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.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest of mankind who have 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 rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him.

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 this I say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent those who are fallen 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;

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet 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 remain, shall be caught up together with them into the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

18 So encourage one another with these words.)

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.