1 Thessalonians 4

1 For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, [that], even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, —even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in the Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

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

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

3 For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, —that ye should abstain from unchastity,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

4 That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour:

for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

5 Not with a passion of coveting, —just as even the nations who know not God, —

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

6 Not over-reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things, —even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness.

not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

7 For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification.

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

8 Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth—it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, —Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

9 But, concerning brotherly love—no need, have ye, that we be writing unto you; for, ye yourselves, are, God-taught, to the loving of one another; —

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

10 And, in fact, ye are doing it unto all the brethren [who are] in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

11 And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, —even as, unto you, we gave charge—

and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

12 That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.

so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

13 But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep, —lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope;

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

14 For, if we believe that, Jesus, died, and rose again, so, also will, God, bring forth with him, them who have fallen asleep through Jesus;

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

15 For, this, unto you, do we say, by a word of the Lord, —that, we, the living who are left unto the Presence of the Lord, shall in nowise get before them who have fallen asleep;

For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

16 Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief-messenger’s voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, —and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, first,

Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

17 After that, we, the living who are left, together with them, shall be caught away, in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: —and, thus, evermore, with the Lord, shall we be!

then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

18 So then, be consoling one another with these words.

Therefore encourage each other with these words.