< 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,
Mmang ke oketse ka se, bakaulengwe ba ba rategang: Lo setse lo itse go itumedisa Modimo mo botshelong jwa lona jwa malatsi otlhe, gonne lo itse melao e re e lo neetseng e tswa kwa go Morena Jesu ka sebele. Jaanong re a lo kopa, ee, re batla se mo go lona ka leina la Morena Jesu, gore lo tshele lo le gautshwane le one mogopolo oo.
2 for you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;
3 for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,
Gonne Modimo o batla gore lo nne boitshepo le bophepa, le go ikgapha mo sebeng sa boaka gore mongwe le mongwe wa lona a tle a nyale ka boitshepo le ka tlotlo,
4 that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
e seng mo dikeletsong tsa nama jaaka baheitane ba dira, mo bosenakitsong jwa bone ka Modimo le ditsela tsa one.
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,
Mme gape le mo ke go rata ga Modimo: gore o seka wa tsietsa mo selong se, ka go tsaya mosadi wa monna yo mongwe, gonne Morena o tlaa go otlhaela go dira jalo ka kwatlhao e e botlhoko, jaaka re lo boleletse pele ka tlhwaafalo.
7 for God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Gonne Modimo ga o a re biletsa go nna le megopolo e e maswe le go tlala dikeletso tsa nama, mme o re bileditse go nna boitshepo le bophepa.
8 He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
Fa mongwe a gana go tshela ka fa ditaolong tse, ga se gore o gana ditaolo tsa batho mme o gana tsa Modimo o o lo nayang Mowa O O Boitshepo.
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,
Mme kaga lorato lwa sekaulengwe lo lo itshe-kileng lo lo tshwanetseng go nna mo bathong ba Modimo, ga ke tlhoke go bua thata, ke a tlhomamisa! Gonne Modimo ka bo One o lo ruta go ratana.
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,
Ke a tlhomamisa, fa lorato lwa lona lo setse lo nonofile go tswela kwa bakaulengweng botlhe ba Bakeresete mo chabeng yotlhe ya ga lona. Le fa go ntse jalo, ditsala tse di rategang, re lo kopa go ba rata segolo bogolo.
11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
Se e tshwanetseng go nna keletso ya lona ke se: go tshela botshelo jo bo ritibetseng, lo beile mogopolo mo go se se amang matshelo a lona lo dira tiro e e leng ya lona ka sebele, jaaka re lo boleletse pele.
12 that you may walk properly to those outside, and may have lack of nothing.
Ka go dira jalo batho ba e seng Bakeresete ba tlaa lo ikanya ba bo ba lo tlotla, mme ga lo kitla lo tlhokana le go baya mo go ope gore a lo fe madi a a lekanyeng go duela melato ya lona.
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,
Mme jaanong, bakaulengwe ba ba rategang, ke batla gore lo itse se se diragalang mo Mokereseteng fa aa swa gore e tle e re fa loso lo tla, lo seka lwa utlwa botlhoko thata, jaaka ba ba se nang tsholofelo.
14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring with Him those asleep through Jesus,
Gonne e re ka re dumela gore Jesu o ne a swa a bo a tsoga mo losong gape, re ka dumela gape gore fa Jesu a bowa gape, Modimo o tlaa mmusa le Bakeresete botlhe ba ba suleng.
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,
Ke ka lo bolelela se, se tswa kwa Moreneng ka sebele: Gore rona ba re santseng re tshela, fa Morena a boa ga re kitla re tlhatloga go ya go mo kgatlhantsha pele ga ba ba mo mabitleng a bone.
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;
Gonne Morena ka sebele o tlaa fologa kwa legodimong ka loshalaba lo logolo le go gowa ga moengele mo go amang mowa le go galaotega ga torompeta ya Modimo. Mme Bakeresete ba ba suleng ba tlaa nna ba ntlha go tlhatloga ba ya go kgatlhantsha Morena.
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;
Mme rona ba re santseng re tshela re tlogetswe mo lefatsheng re tlaa tsholelediwa mmogo nabo mo marung go kgatlhantsha Morena mo loaping le go nna nae ka bosenabokhutlo.
18 so, then, comfort one another with these words.
Ke gone gomotsanang lo kgothatsane ka mafoko a.

< 1 Thessalonians 4 >