1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.

2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.

7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more;

11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;

12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest of mankind who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him.

15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

For this I say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent those who are fallen asleep.

16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

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

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.