1 Thessalonians 4

1 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

Therfor, britheren, fro hennus forward we preien you, and bisechen in the Lord Jhesu, that as ye han resseyued of vs, hou it bihoueth you to go and to plese God, so walke ye, that ye abounde the more.

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

For ye witen what comaundementis Y haue youun to you bi the Lord Jhesu.

3 For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For this is the wille of God, youre holynesse, that ye absteyne you fro fornycacioun.

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

That ech of you kunne welde his vessel in holynesse, and onour;

5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God, )

not in passioun of lust, as hethene men that knowen not God.

6 not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

And that no man ouergo, nethir disseyue his brothir in chaffaring. For the Lord is venger of alle these thingis, as we biforseiden to you, and han witnessid.

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

For God clepide not vs in to vnclennesse, but in to holynesse.

8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

Therfor he that dispisith these thingis, dispisith not man, but God, that also yaf his holi spirit in vs.

9 Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

But of the charite of britherhed we hadden no nede to write to you; ye silf han lerud of God, that ye loue togidere;

10 For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

for ye don that in to alle britheren in al Macedonye. And, britheren, we preyen you, that ye abounde more; and taken kepe, that ye be quyet;

11 and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

and that ye do youre nede, and `ye worche with youre hoondis, as we han comaundid to you;

12 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

and that ye wandre onestli to hem that ben with outforth, and that of no mannus ye desir ony thing.

13 But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

For, britheren, we wolen not, that ye vnknowe of men that dien, that ye be not soreuful, as othere that han not hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For if we bileuen, that Jhesu was deed, and roos ayen, so God schal lede with hym hem that ben deed bi Jhesu.

15 (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

And we seien this thing to you in the word of the Lord, that we that lyuen, that ben left in the comyng of the Lord, schulen not come bifor hem that ben deed.

16 for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

For the Lord hym silf schal come doun fro heuene, in the comaundement, and in the vois of an archaungel, and in the trumpe of God; and the deed men that ben in Crist, schulen rise ayen first.

17 then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.

Afterward we that lyuen, that ben left, schulen be rauyschid togidere with hem in cloudis, metinge Crist `in to the eir; and so euere more we schulen be with the Lord.

18 So encourage one another with these words.)

Therfor be ye coumfortid togidere in these wordis.