1 Thessalonians 4

1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

Finally then, brothers, we implore you and we exhort [you] in [the] Lord Jesus (so that *NO*) even as you have received from us in what manner it behooves you to walk and to please God (even as also you walk [now], *NO*) so you may abound more;

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

You know for what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

This for is [the] will of God, the sanctification of you: To abstain you [are] from sexual immorality;

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

to know each of you [how] the his own vessel to control in holiness and honor,

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

not in [the] passion of lust as also the Gentiles not knowing God;

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

not to go beyond and to overreach in the matter the brother of him; because avenging [is] (the *k*) Lord concerning all these things even as also we told before you and thoroughly warned.

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

Not for has called us God to impurity but into holiness.

8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit.

So then the [one] rejecting [this] not man disregards but God the [One] also (giving *N(k)O*) the Spirit of Him Holy to (you. *N(K)O*)

9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Concerning now brotherly love no need you have [for me] to write to you; yourselves for you yourselves taught by God are in order to love one another;

10 And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more;

And for you are doing this toward all the brothers the [ones] in all Macedonia. We exhort however you, brothers, to abound more and more

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

and to strive earnestly to live quietly and to attend to [your] own and to work with the own hands of you even as you we commanded;

12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.

so that you may walk properly toward those outside and of no one need may have.

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Not (we do want *N(K)O*) but you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those (themselves falling asleep, *N(k)O*) so that not you may be grieved even as also the rest those not having hope.

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

If for we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those having fallen asleep through Jesus will bring with Him.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

This for to you we declare in [the] word of [the] Lord that we ourselves the living who are remaining untill the coming of the Lord certainly not may precede those having fallen asleep;

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

because Himself the Lord with a loud command, with [the] voice of an archangel and with [the] trumpet of God will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first,

17 Then we which 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.

Then we ourselves the living those remaining together with them we will be caught away in [the] clouds for [the] meeting of the Lord in [the] air; and so always with [the] Lord we will be.

18 Why comfort one another with these words.

Therefore do encourage one another with words these.