1 Thessalonians 4

1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [ so] ye would abound more and 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 commandments we gave you by 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 every one of you should know how to possess his 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 the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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

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 hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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

8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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

9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto 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 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and 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 that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded 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 honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

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

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which 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 died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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 unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are 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 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 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 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.

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 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.