1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally then, brothers, we implore you and we exhort [you] in [the] Lord Jesus (so that *NO*) even as you have received from us in what manner it behooves you to walk and to please God (even as also you walk [now], *NO*) so you may abound 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 You know for what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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

3 This for is [the] will of God, the sanctification of you: To abstain you [are] from sexual immorality;

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

4 to know each of you [how] the his own vessel to control in holiness and honor,

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

5 not in [the] passion of lust as also the Gentiles not knowing God;

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

6 not to go beyond and to overreach in the matter the brother of him; because avenging [is] (the *k*) Lord concerning all these things even as also we told before you and thoroughly warned.

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 Not for has called us God to impurity but into holiness.

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

8 So then the [one] rejecting [this] not man disregards but God the [One] also (giving *N(k)O*) the Spirit of Him Holy to (you. *N(K)O*)

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

9 Concerning now brotherly love no need you have [for me] to write to you; yourselves for you yourselves taught by God are in order to love 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 for you are doing this toward all the brothers the [ones] in all Macedonia. We exhort however you, brothers, to abound more and 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 strive earnestly to live quietly and to attend to [your] own and to work with the own hands of you even as you we commanded;

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 so that you may walk properly toward those outside and of no one need may have.

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

13 Not (we do want *N(K)O*) but you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those (themselves falling asleep, *N(k)O*) so that not you may be grieved even as also the rest those not having 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 If for we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those having fallen asleep through Jesus will bring with Him.

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

15 This for to you we declare in [the] word of [the] Lord that we ourselves the living who are remaining untill the coming of the Lord certainly not may precede those having 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 Himself the Lord with a loud command, with [the] voice of an archangel and with [the] trumpet of God will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will 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 Then we ourselves the living those remaining together with them we will be caught away in [the] clouds for [the] meeting of the Lord in [the] air; and so always with [the] Lord we will 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 Therefore do encourage one another with words these.

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