< 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 then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God - and you are actually doing so - that you abound in it yet more and more.
2 For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
For this is God’s will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.
5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God, )
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who 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 overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.
7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave 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.
It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God 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,
As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet 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,
Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).
12 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.
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.
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, 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 really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.
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 tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have 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 with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will 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.
And afterwards we who are alive, who 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 So encourage one another with these words.)
So comfort one another with these words.

< 1 Thessalonians 4 >