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.

Furthermore then we plead to you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as all of you have received of us how all of you ought to walk and to please God, so all of you would abound more and more.

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

For all of you 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 all of you should abstain from fornication:

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

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even 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 go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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

For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit. (pneuma)

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,

But as concerning brotherly love all of you need not that I write unto you: for all of you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

And indeed all of you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we plead to you, brethren, that all of you increase 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 all of you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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

That all of you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that all of you may have lack of nothing.

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.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that all of you sorrow not, even as others which 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, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will 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 we say unto you by the word (logos) of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are 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 trump 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 which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (logos)