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,
De cetero ergo, fratres, rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Iesu, ut quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo oporteat vos ambulare, et placere Deo, sic et ambuletis ut abundetis magis.
2 for you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;
Scitis enim quæ præcepta dederim vobis per Dominum Iesum.
3 for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,
Hæc est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra: ut abstineatis vos a fornicatione,
4 that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
ut sciat unusquisque vestrum vas suum possidere in sanctificatione, et honore:
5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
non in passione desiderii, sicut et Gentes, quæ ignorant Deum:
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,
et nequis supergrediatur, neque circumveniat in negotio fratrem suum: quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut prædiximus vobis, et testificati sumus.
7 for God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Non enim vocavit nos Deus in immunditiam, sed in sanctificationem.
8 He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
Itaque qui hæc spernit, non hominem spernit, sed Deum: qui etiam dedit Spiritum suum Sanctum in nobis.
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,
De charitate autem fraternitatis non necesse habemus scribere vobis: ipsi enim vos a Deo didicistis ut diligatis invicem.
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,
Etenim illud facitis in omnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos fratres ut abundetis magis,
11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
et opera detis ut quieti sitis, et ut vestrum negotium agatis, et operemini manibus vestris, sicut præcepimus vobis:
12 that you may walk properly to those outside, and may have lack of nothing.
et ut honeste ambuletis ad eos, qui foris sunt: et nullius aliquid desideretis.
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,
Nolumus autem vos ignorare fratres de dormientibus, ut non contristemini sicut et ceteri, qui spem non habent.
14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring with Him those asleep through Jesus,
Si enim credimus quod Iesus mortuus est, et resurrexit: ita et Deus eos, qui dormierunt per Iesum, adducet cum eo.
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,
Hoc enim vobis dicimus in Verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui residui sumus in adventum Domini, non præveniemus eos, qui dormierunt.
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;
Quoniam ipse Dominus in iussu, et in voce Archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de cælo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi.
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;
Deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Christo in aera, et sic semper cum Domino erimus.
18 so, then, comfort one another with these words.
Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.
