1Th 4 | ABEn | STEP | The rest then, brethren, we ask you and appeal in the Lord Jesus, as you received from us the thing how it was necessary for you to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.

‏ 1 Thessalonians 4

CHAPTER 4 An Appeal to Sanctification

1 The rest then, brethren, we ask you and appeal in the Lord Jesus, as you received from us the thing how it was necessary for you to walk and to please God, that you should abound more. 2 For you know what exhortations we gave to you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God -- your sanctification, for you to be at a distance from harlotry. 4 [³to know ¹For each ²of you] his own vessel, to possess in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of desire, as even the nations, the ones not knowing God; 6 to not pass over and to overabound in the matter of his brother; for the one punishing is the Lord concerning all these things, as also we foretold to you, and we testified. 7 [⁵not ¹For ³called ⁴us ²God] unto uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Accordingly the one disregarding, [²not ³man ¹disregards], but God, the one also having given [³spirit ¹his ²holy] to us. 9 And concerning brotherly affection [²no ³need ¹you have] for me to write to you; [³yourselves ¹for ²you] are taught by God to love one another. 10 For also you do this towards all the brethren, the ones in all Macedonia! But we appeal to you, brethren, to abound more, 11 and to strive earnestly to be quiet, and to do your own things, and to work with [²own ³hands ¹your], as we exhorted to you; 12 that you should walk decently towards the ones outside, and no one [²need ¹should have].

The Arrival of The Lord

13 [²I do not ³want ¹But] you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning the ones having gone to sleep, that you do not fret as even the rest, the ones not having hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God [⁴the ones ⁵having gone to sleep ⁶through ⁷Jesus ¹will bring ²with ³him]. 15 For this to you we say by word of the Lord, that we, the ones living, the ones remaining at the arrival of the Lord, in no way should anticipate the ones having gone to sleep. 16 For [³himself ¹the ²Lord] in a word of command by the voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise up first. 17 Thereupon we the living, the ones remaining, together with them shall be seized in clouds, for meeting the Lord in the air, and thus at all times with the Lord we shall be. 18 So then comfort one another by these words!