1 Thessalonians 4

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not 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 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.

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

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

8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit. (pneuma)

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

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

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.

10 And indeed all of you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we plead to you, brethren, that all of you increase more and more;

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

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

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

(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;

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:

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;

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, 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.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (logos)

So encourage one another with these words.)