1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Yeshua, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, even as you are living, that you excel more and more.

As to what remains, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and please God, you would more abound in it.

2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.

For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus;

3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom--

4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

that every one of you should know how to possess his own body in sanctification and honor--

5 not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God.

6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

That no man should go beyond bounds, or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all such;

7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Ruach ha-Kodesh to you.

Therefore, indeed, he who despises not man, but God, who certainly has given to us his Holy Spirit.

9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

But, concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

And, indeed, you do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we exhort you, brethren, still to abound,

11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

and earnestly study to be quiet; and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

that you may walk decently toward them who are without, and may have need of nothing.

13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Now, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them who sleep; that you may not be grieved, even as the others, who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again; so, also, them who sleep, will God, through Jesus, bring with him.

15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

Besides, this we affirm to you, by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain at the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate them who are asleep:

16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's shofar. The dead in Messiah will rise first,

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Arch Angel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

afterward we, the living, who remain, shall, at the same time with them, be instantly taken up in clouds, to join the Lord in the air; and so we shall be for ever with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.