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| 1st-Thessalonians 4:1 | Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly. | And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:2 | For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. | Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:3 | For this is God's will your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication; | For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:4 | that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour; | So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:5 | that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God; | Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:6 | and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him. For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have already taught you and solemnly warned you. | And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:7 | God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity. | Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:8 | Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts. | Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:9 | But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; | But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:10 | and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. And we exhort you to do so more and more, | And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:11 | and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do: | And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:12 | so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one. | That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:13 | Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no hope. | But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who shall have passed away. | For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:15 | For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall have previously passed away. | For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:16 | For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. | Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:17 | Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air. | Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 4:18 | And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. | So then, give comfort to one another with these words. |
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