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.
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 ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus.
Scitis enim quae praecepta dederim vobis per Dominum Iesum.
3 For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, —that ye should abstain from unchastity,
Haec est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra: ut abstineatis vos a fornicatione,
4 That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour:
ut sciat unusquisque vestrum vas suum possidere in sanctificatione, et honore:
5 Not with a passion of coveting, —just as even the nations who know not God, —
non in passione desiderii, sicut et Gentes, quae ignorant Deum:
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.
et nequis supergrediatur, neque circumveniat in negotio fratrem suum: quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut praediximus vobis, et testificati sumus.
7 For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification.
non enim vocavit nos Deus in immunditiam, sed in sanctificationem.
8 Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth—it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, —Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Itaque qui haec spernit, non hominem spernit, sed Deum: qui etiam dedit Spiritum suum sanctum in nobis.
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; —
De charitate autem fraternitatis non necesse habemus scribere vobis: ipsi enim vos a Deo didicistis ut diligatis invicem.
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,
Etenim illud facitis in omnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos fratres ut abundetis magis,
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—
et opera detis ut quieti sitis, et ut vestrum negotium agatis, et operemini manibus vestris, sicut praecipimus vobis:
12 That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.
et ut honeste ambuletis ad eos, qui foris sunt: et nullius aliquid desideretis.
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;
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 will, God, bring forth with him, them who have fallen 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, 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;
Hoc enim vobis dicimus in verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui residui sumus in adventu Domini, non praeveniemus eos, qui dormierunt.
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,
Quoniam ipse Dominus in iussu, et in voce Archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de caelo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi.
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!
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, be consoling one another with these words.
Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.
