1 Thessalonians 4
1 As to the rest, then, brothers, we request, and call on you in the Lord Jesus, as you received from us how it is necessary for you to walk and to please God, that you may abound the 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 you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;
For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,
For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
4 that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God, )
6 that no one goes beyond and defrauds his brother in the matter, because the LORD [is] an avenger of all these, as we also spoke to you before 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 did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
8 He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
9 And concerning the brotherly love, you have no need of [my] writing to you, for you yourselves are God-taught 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 for you do it also to all the brothers who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call on you, brothers, to abound still 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 to 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 you may walk properly to those outside, and may have lack of nothing.
that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
13 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that you may not sorrow, as also the rest who 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, so also God will bring with Him those asleep through Jesus,
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 we say this to you in the word of the LORD, that we who are living—who remain over to the coming of the LORD—may not precede those 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 because the LORD Himself, with a shout, with the voice of a chief-messenger, and with the trumpet of God, will come down from Heaven, and the dead in Christ will 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 who are living, who are remaining over, will be snatched up together with them in [the] clouds to meet the LORD in [the] air, and so we will always 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 so, then, comfort one another with these words.
So encourage one another with these words.)
