1 Thessalonians 4
4
1For 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. 2For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; 4that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, 5(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,) 6not 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. 7For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
9Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more, 11and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you, 12that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
13But 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. 14For 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. 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; 16for 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; 17then 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. 18So encourage one another with these words.)
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Tas`loniqim Aleph (1 Thessalonians) 4
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1For the rest then, brothers, we beg you and call upon you in the Master יהושע, that as you received from us how you should walk and to please Elohim, you should excel still more,
2for you know what commands we gave you through the Master יהושע.
3For this is the desire of Elohim: your set-apartness! – that you should abstain from whoring,
4that each one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in set-apartness and respect,
5not in passion of lust, like the nations who do not know Elohim,
6not to overstep and take advantage of his brother in this matter, because the Master is the revenger of all such, as we indeed said to you before and earnestly warned.
7For Elohim did not call us to uncleanness, but in set-apartness.
8Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but Elohim, who also gives us His Set-apart Spirit.
9And it is not necessary to write to you about brotherly love, for you yourselves are taught by Elohim to love one another,
10for, in fact, you do so toward all the brothers who are in all Makedonia. But we call upon you, brothers, that you do so more and more,
11and to make it your ambition to live peaceably, and to attend to your own, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
12so that you behave decently toward those who are outside, and not be in any need.
13Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sad as others who have no expectation.
14For if we believe that יהושע died and rose again, so also Elohim shall bring with Him those who sleep#A euphemism for death. in יהושע.
15For this we say to you by the word of the Master, that we, the living who are left over at the coming of the Master shall in no way go before those who are asleep.
16Because the Master Himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a chief messenger, and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first.
17Then we, the living who are left over, shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we shall always be with the Master.
18So, then, encourage one another with these words.
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