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, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

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

For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

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

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

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

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

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

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know 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.

and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

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

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

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

Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

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

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by 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 you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel 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 to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

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

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

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

Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without 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 since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

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.

By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen 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 loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

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.

After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

18 Koa dia mifampionòna ianareo amin’ izany teny izany.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.