1 Thessalonians 4

1 For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, [that], even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, —even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

2 For ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus.

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

3 For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, —that ye should abstain from unchastity,

for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

4 That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour:

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

5 Not with a passion of coveting, —just as even the nations who know not God, —

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

6 Not over-reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things, —even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness.

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

7 For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification.

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

8 Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth—it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, —Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

9 But, concerning brotherly love—no need, have ye, that we be writing unto you; for, ye yourselves, are, God-taught, to the loving of one another; —

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

10 And, in fact, ye are doing it unto all the brethren [who are] in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

11 And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, —even as, unto you, we gave charge—

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

12 That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

13 But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep, —lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

14 For, if we believe that, Jesus, died, and rose again, so, also will, God, bring forth with him, them who have fallen asleep through Jesus;

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

15 For, this, unto you, do we say, by a word of the Lord, —that, we, the living who are left unto the Presence of the Lord, shall in nowise get before them who have fallen asleep;

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,

16 Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief-messenger’s voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, —and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, first,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

17 After that, we, the living who are left, together with them, shall be caught away, in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: —and, thus, evermore, with the Lord, shall we be!

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

18 So then, be consoling one another with these words.

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.