1 Tesaloniana 4

1 Ary farany, ry rahalahy, mangataka aminareo sy mananatra anareo ao amin’ i Jesosy Tompo izahay, mba ho araka ny nandraisanareo taminay izay mety handehananareo sy hanaovanareo ny sitrapon’ Andriamanitra ― dia araka ny andehananareo ihany ― no hitomboanareo bebe kokoa.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

2 Fa fantatrareo ny didy nomenay anareo avy tamin’ i Jesosy Tompo.

For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus.

3 Fa izao no sitrapon’ Andriamanitra, dia ny hanamasinana anareo, hifadianareo ny fijangajangana,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;

4 mba samy hahafantatra izay hahazoanareo ny fanaky ny tenanareo avy, amin’ ny fahamasinana sy ny voninahitra,

That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,

5 tsy amin’ ny filàna fotsiny, tahaka ny jentilisa izay tsy mahalala an’ Andriamanitra,

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

6 mba tsy hisy hanao saina hifetsy ny rahalahiny amin’ izany; fa ny Tompo no mpamaly ny amin’ izany zavatra rehetra izany, toy ny nolazainay sy nambaranay taminareo rahateo.

That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified:

7 Fa Andriamanitra tsy niantso antsika ho amin’ ny fahalotoana, fa amin’ ny fahamasinana.

for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

8 Koa izay mandà, dia tsy olona no laviny, fa Andriamanitra, Izay manome anareo ny Fanahiny Masìna.

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

9 Fa ny amin’ ny fifankatiavan’ ny mpirahalahy, dia tsy misy tokony hosoratako aminareo, satria ny tenanareo dia ampianarin’ Andriamanitra hifankatia.

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

10 Fa manao izany ihany ianareo amin’ ny rahalahy rehetra eran’ i Makedonia; nefa mananatra anareo ihany izahay, ry rahalahy, mba hitombo bebe kokoa,

and indeed you do this to all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that you abound in love more and more,

11 ary mba hokendrenareo ny ho tafatoetra tsara sy hitandrina ny raharahanareo ary hiasa amin’ ny tananareo araka ny nandidianay anareo,

and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

12 mba handehananareo amin’ izay fitondran-tena mahamendrika amin’ ny eo ivelany, ary mba tsy hanan-java-mahory ianareo.

in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.

13 Fa tsy tianay tsy ho fantatrareo, ry rahalahy, ny amin’ izay modi-mandry, mba tsy hahalahelovanareo tahaka ny sasany izay tsy manana fanantenana.

But concerning those who have fallen asleep, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that you may not grieve, as others who have no hope.

14 Fa raha inoantsika fa efa maty Jesosy sady efa nitsangana indray, dia toy izany koa no hitondran’ Andriamanitra izay efa nodi-mandry tao amin’ i Jesosy hiaraka aminy.

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

15 Fa izao no lazainay aminareo amin’ ny tenin’ ny Tompo: isika, izay velona ka mbola mitoetra mandra-pihavin’ ny Tompo, dia tsy mba hialoha izay efa nodi-mandry tsy akory.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are asleep

16 Fa ny tenan’ ny Tompo no hidina avy any an-danitra amin’ ny fiantsoana sy ny feon’ ny arikanjely ary ny trompetran’ Andriamanitra, ka izay maty ao amin i Kristy no hitsangana aloha;

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first;

17 ary rehefa afaka izany, dia isika izay velona ka mbola mitoetra no hakarina hiaraka aminy ho eny amin’ ny rahona hitsena ny Tompo any amin’ ny habakabaka; dia ho any amin’ ny Tompo mandrakariva isika.

then we, the living who remain, shall, together with them, be caught up in clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

18 Koa dia mifampionòna ianareo amin’ izany teny izany.

So, then, comfort one another with these words.