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.

Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.

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

For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

3 For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;

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

and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor;

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

and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of 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.

and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.

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

For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.

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

He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

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 love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of 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,

Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:

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 ye strive to be quiet, and to attend to your own affairs; and that ye labor with your own hands; as we directed you;

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

and that ye walk becomingly towards those without; and that ye be dependent on no 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.

And, I wish you to know, my brethren, that ye should not mourn over them who have fallen asleep, like other people 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, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, 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;

And this we say to you, by the word of our Lord, that we who may survive and be alive, at the coming of our Lord, shall not precede them who have slept.

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 our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;

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 then, we who survive and are alive shall be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with our Lord.

18 So encourage one another with these words.)

Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.