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,
Anuanom, asɛm a etwa to ne sɛ musuaa ɔkwan pa a ɛsɛ sɛ mofa so tena ase a ɛbɛsɔ Onyankopɔn ani. Na saa pɛpɛɛpɛ na morebɔ mo bra. Enti yɛde yɛn Awurade Yesu din srɛ, hyɛ mo sɛ monyɛ mma ɛmmoro nea moreyɛ mprempren no so.
2 for you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;
Munim nkyerɛkyerɛ a esiane Awurade Yesu tumi nti, yetumi kyerɛkyerɛɛ mo.
3 for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,
Eyi yɛ Onyankopɔn pɛ a ɔwɔ ma mo. Ɔpɛ sɛ moyɛ kronkron na motwe mo ho fi aguamammɔ ho.
4 that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Ɛsɛ sɛ musua sɛnea mohyɛ mo ho so na obiara atumi ne ne yere atena wɔ kronkronyɛ ne anuonyam mu.
5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
Monntena ase akɔnnɔ anibere so te sɛ abosonsomfo a wonnim Onyankopɔn no.
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,
Onyankopɔn akyide no bi nso ne sɛ, ɛnsɛ sɛ mo mu biara sisi ne yɔnko, efisɛ sɛ obi yɛ saa a, Onyankopɔn bɛtwe nʼaso denneennen sɛnea yɛadi kan abɔ mo kɔkɔ no.
7 for God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Onyankopɔn amfrɛ yɛn se yɛmmɛbɔ aguaman, na mmom ɔfrɛɛ yɛn se yɛntena ase ahotew mu.
8 He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
Ɛno nti, obiara a ɔbɛpo saa nkyerɛkyerɛ yi no mpo onipa, na mmom ɔpo Onyankopɔn a ɔma mo ne Honhom Kronkron no.
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,
Ɛho nhia sɛ mɛkyerɛw mo afa ɔdɔ a ɛsɛ sɛ modɔ mo nuanom asuafo no ho. Onyankopɔn akyerɛ mo ankasa ɔkwan a ɛsɛ sɛ mofa so dodɔ mo ho mo ho.
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,
Na moada saa ɔdɔ no adi pɛpɛɛpɛ akyerɛ anuanom a wɔwɔ Makedonia no nyinaa. Nanso anuanom, yɛsrɛ mo sɛ monkɔ so nnodɔ mo ho mo ho mma ɛmmoro saa.
11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
Momma ɛnyɛ mo botae sɛ mobɛtena ase dinn na moahwɛ so adi mo dwuma de abɔ mo ho akɔnhama sɛnea yɛaka akyerɛ mo dedaw no.
12 that you may walk properly to those outside, and may have lack of nothing.
Sɛ moyɛ saa a ɛbɛma wɔn a wɔnyɛ asuafo no afɛre mo na moremmisa nea ehia mo nso mfi obiara nkyɛn.
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,
Anuanom, yɛpɛ sɛ yɛka nokware a ɛfa wɔn a wɔawuwu no ho kyerɛ mo, sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a morenni ho awerɛhow te sɛ wɔn a wonni anidaso no.
14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring with Him those asleep through Jesus,
Yegye di sɛ Yesu wui, na ɔsɔree bio. Enti sɛ Onyankopɔn de Yesu ba bio a, ɔde wɔn a wonyaa ne mu gyidi ansa na wɔrewu no bɛka ne ho aba.
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,
Awurade nkyerɛkyerɛ a yɛreka akyerɛ mo no ne se, da a Awurade bɛba no, yɛn a yɛte ase yi renni awufo no anim kan.
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;
Awurade no ankasa de ɔhyɛ a ano yɛ den, ɔbɔfo panyin nteɛmu ne Onyankopɔn torobɛnto nnyigye fi ɔsoro bɛba fam. Wɔn a wɔawuwu wɔ Kristo mu no bɛsɔre kan,
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;
na wɔaboaboa yɛn a yɛte ase bere no ne wɔn a wɔasɔre no ano wɔ omununkum mu ahyia Awurade wɔ wim. Na saa na yɛne Awurade bɛtena daa.
18 so, then, comfort one another with these words.
Enti momfa saa asɛm yi nkyekye obiara werɛ.
