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.

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

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

for ye know what commands we gave you through the 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 ye should abstain from fornication;

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

that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor,

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

not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles 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 should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.

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

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

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

He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to 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.

But concerning brotherly love there is no need of writing to you; for ye 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,

for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to abound in love still more;

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

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to 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.

that ye may walk becomingly toward those 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 we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, 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, then also will God, through Jesus, bring again with him those who have fallen asleep.

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 in the word of the Lord, that we who are living, we who are left till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate 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 summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise 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 who are living, we who are left, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; 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.